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Have you checked that the unit is getting 240 volts?
Try flipping the breaker off/on slowly a couple times. Sometimes you can loose half the line without actually tripping the breaker.
Check the voltage at the plug
L1 to L2 should be 240 volts
L1 to Neutral and L2 to Neutral, both should be 120 volts.
If OK
Unplug the unit and check the wires at the terminal strip in the machine to make sure none are loose or burned out
If OK
Check the power at the terminal strip.
Do this with the heater off and on.
[COLOR="Red"]Be careful as 240 volts is lethal !!![/COLOR]

You have power at both sides of the element when referenced to Neutral or ground but Neutral is not part of the heater circuit. If you measured across the heater you would see 0 volts and therefore there is no heating.

What you need is L1 on one side of the element and L2 on the other side.
Your house electrical is two 120 volt supplies (L1 and L2) that share a common Neutral. They are 180 degrees out of phase. So when one is at negative 120 volts the other is at positive 120 volts therefore between the two you have 240 volts. This is the power for the heating element.

When you got the 120 volts at both sides of the element, was the motor running?

[COLOR="Blue"]Is it possible that the element is bad even though it shows continuity?[/COLOR]
I doubt it.

Check to make sure you have 240 volts at the units terminal strip.

Try the same test but do not start the dryer.
If you see 120 volts at the heater then you are seeing L1 voltage.

If you do not see any voltage then during the earlier test you were measuring L2 voltage. This is the side of the line that is switched in when the motor is turning through it's centrifugal switch.

I will try to explain my earlier post a little better.
Lets say everything is OK in the unit and it is running in a heat cycle if you measure the element with Neutral as the reference then you see 120 volts on each side. But one side is L1 voltage and the other side is L2 voltage. So if you measure across the element you will see 240 volts.

Now lets say that either L1 or L2 are not getting to the element. You still measure 120 at both sides of the element (as long as the element is OK) but both sides are either L1 or L2. So if you measure across the element you get 0 volts.

Even though you measure voltage at the heater and it is OK resistance wise, it will not heat up as there is not a circuit path through the heater to Neutral.

Below is a heaters circuit path:
L2
BU to BK motor's centrifugal switch
BK to Heater
HK to High limit thermostat
PU to RD cycling thermostat contacts
Rd to BU temperature switch (if it is in regular heat setting)
BU to 3 timer
3 to 4 timer
4 to BK which is L1

You should have 120vac to ground at the heater terminals even in air fluff cycle. Your missing your L2 leg. Need to check for 240vac at the power cord connection block on the dryer.

Eric

I would unplug the unit and check the connections at the terminal strip in the unit.
Could be a loose connection here.