My gas dryer is tripping the breaker. If I plug in the dryer with the door closed it trips. If I plug it in with the door open, it doesn't trip until I close the door. The door switch is ok. It has a red, a gray and a black wire. The black wire goes to the bulb. I have continuity between the red and black wires with the door switch in the open position, and continuity between red and the gray wires in the closed position. Where does the gray wire go to? I haven't figured how to access the control panel. I took the top cover off and can see in there some. There is a gray wire on signal control and a gray wire on the extended tumble control. I have turned them both off, but it still trips the breaker.

I put the timer in the off position, and it didn't trip when I plugged it in. I unplugged, set the timer, and it tripped again when I plugged it in.

It initially tripped when running, so the timer had remained where it was, mid cycle.

Thanks for your help.

I do have a multimeter, but would need more guidance as to what I'm looking for. I'll unplug those terminals and see what I get on each, with timer set, door open/closed, etc. Thanks again, Tom

Wire may be chaffed somewhere and grounding out. Wire runs to cycling thermostat on front of blower housing. Remove front lower panel for access. Other side of cycling thermostat has wire to hi-limit thermostat on heater box, other side of hi-limit wire goes to gas valves and flame sensor.

Eric