Ok, so wife burned Christmas cookies then noticed the Oven and Preheat lights flashing and bake heat element wasn't working but broil was on? Is Broil even supposed to go on when you turn bake on? No matter if set on bake or broil the broil heat element heats up and bake doesn't work???

So, I thought the heat element was probably bad but wanted to check (without ohmeter) so I switched the wires from the heat elements on the back of the control panel and now the bake works but not the broil???? So, heat elements are good.

I found a paper taped under the unit and it says a flashing preheat light means Shorted/Open sensor or faulty sensor circuit.

Ok, says nothing about flashing bake light also, but if this was the problem, were would I find this or these sensors to test? Can I test with no ohmeter but just a non-contact voltage tester? Or some other way? If not a sensor I'm guessing the control unit itself and if that's the case, probably better just buy a new stove/oven??? Any suggestions even I'm sure a no no in the electrical field to bypass it JUST TO TEST AND NOT USE. Not an idiot. Just seems odd, if a sensor why would the broil still work then???

So, right now my best guess not being in the electrical field, would be, I have a bad control panel. Though the paper seems to suggest a bad sensor I am finding it unlikely that either heat element would work if that was the case. But, that would just be using some logic and we all know, many products are not built logically to keep costs down.

Logic tells me a sensor is used to monitor something, in the case of an oven I would have to guess that would be the temp. If that is correct by the diagram it appears there is only 1 sensor for the oven so this sensor would be for safety so you do not start a fire if element stays on to long. Therefore logic tells me if that is true the sensor, if bad would not let the element heat up. Not just stop one of them from heating up since this could still be a safety risk. But maybe they wanted the oven to still kind of be able to function but make sure you know something is wrong???? LOL, anyways any help would be appreciated before we go buy a new one when it is just a couple dollar part.

Ok, let me also ask this, since the bake seems to work just fine if I just put the bake heater element (wire) on the broil terminal, does anyone foresee an issue with just leaving the wire for the the broil? Then Bake works just no broil, I can live with that.

I just need to check 1st if once at correct temp the element still shuts off as it is supposed to. if it does, any problem with, doing a little hack job and just have one wire come off the broil terminal into an added switch that would just flip the output from one wire (bake) to the other wire (broil) since it seems like the control panel is stuck on broil????

Not an ideal fix, but picturing in my head right now, it seems like a perfectly fine cheap fix????