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oddg241  
#1 Posted : Saturday, December 27, 2008 12:55:56 PM(UTC)
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I have a Sears Kenmore electric dryer. The dryer will spin but not heat. I have removed heat element, a 250 degree thermostat attached to heater element cover, and removed the thermostat cut off (hi-limit thermostat). All of them read continuity. Can a thermostat read good but still be bad? The 250 degree thermostat regulates the heat element? The hi-limit shuts it off if over 250 degrees? I lose one side of 220VAC fuses. Sometimes right side, sometimes both sides.
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#2 Posted : Saturday, December 27, 2008 2:16:51 PM(UTC)
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I have unhooked 250 degree thermo from heat element box, I was reading each post before. Now my heat element reads 9.6 ohms on a Fluke digital meter. That is not an acceptable reading, is it?
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#3 Posted : Sunday, December 28, 2008 10:22:18 AM(UTC)
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Check the wall outlet for 230 volts across the outer two pins.
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#4 Posted : Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:59:55 PM(UTC)
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I have 220 to plug. I read 110 each leg, and 220 across them. ty for the tip.
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Run the dryer with the back off and check for 230 volts across the thermal fuse, overload thermostat and cycling thermostat.
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#6 Posted : Monday, December 29, 2008 7:30:44 AM(UTC)
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I only see a place for 2 thermostats. One attached right by heater element and one higher up the duct, the hi limit thermostat. Where is thermol fuse located?
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#7 Posted : Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:15:45 AM(UTC)
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The thermal fuse has a ceramic base and high up on the heater housing, cycling thermostat on the blower housing.
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#8 Posted : Friday, January 2, 2009 7:32:16 PM(UTC)
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In my second post I read 9.6 ohms on heater element. Is that a good element or should it read infinity on continuity?
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#9 Posted : Saturday, January 3, 2009 11:06:30 AM(UTC)
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Sorry. I said that wrong in last reply. I meant zero not infinity. Today I found the thermal fuse and it reads 0. I found the Internal Bias Thermostat, it has 4 posts, the larger 2 (top and bottom) and smaller 2 (left and right sides). I read zero from top to bottom posts. I read nothing on smaller posts to each other, or in any combination with larger posts and either smaller posts. Is that a correct reading? Am I supposed to be able to read small post to small post?
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