breaker trips

My dryer runs for about 10 min. then the breaker trips dryer is a couple of years old.

 

with out other information i would first check air flow, maybe even unhook vent and run whitout a vent hose and see if problem still happens.

 

Please provide some history. Is this a different dryer in the same house, same dryer in a different house, ...??? What if anything changed? And does the breaker say 20 or 30? And in what year was the house biult?

 

This might sound crazy but has anyone cleaned out the lint trap?
They can get filled with lint and not alow the air flow and the dryer overheats.

 

breaker is a double 15 , vent was cleaned thoroughly and machine. Machine is in the same place never been moved.
Started tripping once in a while and in the last month began to trip at shorter intervals. Now goes for about 2 min.

 

I've never heard of a clothes dryer that could run on 15 amp. Some of the smaller/older one could run on 20 amps. Modern ones need 30 amps. I suggest you have a professional evaluate this setup to see if this dryer is on an appropriate circuit, and to see if the breaker is correctly sized for the wire. Whatever you do, do not increase the breaker size without a full evaluation by a professional.

In what year was your house built? Is this a full-size dryer, or a smaller apartment-size one? Is the dryer in a regular laundry room, or at least an area wired to be used for laundry? Perhaps the room is designed to be used with a gas dryer?

 

It is a 30 amp, double 15. The dryer is full size. The laundry was built about 9 years ago. The room was made for an electric washer and dryer. The vent goes straight up and out, with only one turn out of the house.

 

Do the breaker handles have the numbers "30" on them, or the numbers "15"?

30 amps is 30 amps. It is not made up of two 15s. The amperage of each half of a double-pole breaker cannot be added together.

Has anybody ever replaced the breaker?

 

It says 15 on each. I tried another breaker same problem.
It ran on the old breaker for about 2 years with only an occasional trip.

 

I think it almost certain that you have the wrong breaker. Whoever put this in probably didn't understand 240-volt circuits. Check the wire size (at both ends) before changing anything.

Why did it work for two years? You were lucky. The dryer motor is working just a bit harder now that it is older.

What year was the house built?

 

The wire in that part of the house is 9 years old. This dryer is a replacement for an old dryer(used maytag) that we had that ran fine in the same spot for 6 years.