Fun day. Have the damn dryer open... Again. I've replaced the heater element and associated sensors/etc twice, had to replace the idler pulley and belt once, and now the damn thing trips the breaker every time I try to start a cycle. Worked fine for multiple loads Monday. Tried one load Tuesday and it cuts out basically immediately.
Happens on air fluff and I've tested the heater element and no short there, so I don't think it's the heater. I've pulled the motor and with a multimeter I don't see any direct shorts from any terminal (except GND obv) to the frame of the motor, so it's not an obvious problem. Plus I would assume a direct short in the motor wouldn't cause the dryer to even ATTEMPT to spin up, and would trip as soon as I hit the start button. But in this case it takes 1-2 seconds for the motor to start spinning up before it trips.
But I'm still thinking it's the motor, so I guess I'll just have my dryer in pieces in the garage until tomorrow when Amazon delivers a new motor.
Ugh.