Hi,
Thanks for everyone's input... much appreciated.
The last thing I did was pull the heater off the board and turn the breaker back on, as someone suggested my problem is most likely my heater.
At that point the breaker did not trip. So I started thinking maybe this person is right, but it could still be a "completed circuit" thing, so I left the unit hot and pushed the right copper band back onto the board stud. Ok.. so good. I then pushed the left copper band back onto the stud. The breaker tripped.
Ok, fine. The problem seems to be when I get the heater back into circuit with the left lead, but in my mind it could still be the overall circuitry -being that the heater just completes the loop.
So I did the process in reverse... Power on... no heater involved yet... pushed the left copper band back onto the circuit board... the breaker pops.
The board circuitry is not "Made" because the right lead (the good one from pervious test) was not connected yet.
So know I'm thinking, "It must be the heater."
Does anybody think it could still possibly be anything OTHER than the heater?
It seems pretty logical to me, but I'm not a computer componet specialist.
Thanks for any more input,
Luna13