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Stove is GE Spectra series
Have a unique problem. Oven bake element broken in half. All oven controls to off position. Auto bake to off position. Element still glowing red heating oven to 450 deg. No visual light indication any burner or oven element on. Only way to shut oven element off is shut main power or disconnect wiring to element.
Is this a major safety problem with GE Ovens? Is there a major defect with GE oven control panel ? What is the problem or is this normal when an oven element breaks ???
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It can happen, the element is broke and probably shorted to ground, replace the element and you'll probably be fine. This can happen to any brand, not just Ge, and no major control panel defect.
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Originally Posted by: Johnk  Stove is GE Spectra series
Have a unique problem. Oven bake element broken in half. All oven controls to off position. Auto bake to off position. Element still glowing red heating oven to 450 deg. No visual light indication any burner or oven element on. Only way to shut oven element off is shut main power or disconnect wiring to element.
Is this a major safety problem with GE Ovens? Is there a major defect with GE oven control panel ? What is the problem or is this normal when an oven element breaks ??? An oven element breaking could be caused by something falling on it while baking and it cooks into the element at one spot. This causes the stress on that one spot and can make it break. I have seen it often with young elements. Make sure to clean it if something falls on it. Here is the part number for your element WB44T10011
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Do you live in an old house 20s - 50s with old wiring the kind that is insulated with tared cloth and conduit it could have been wired wrong because the color code red has faded away and now you have two blacks and only one white. Only the white wire has specs of paint left. Have this cheked if so replaced it with new wire from the braker all the way to the stoves outlet. Also in time old wire tends to ground out to its conduit its incase in. I've had to replace old wiring in lots of old homes because of this ploblem of gounding and fading of color codes. Hope this helps out.
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