Hi. I have a Maytag double oven and the bake element (bottom) of the top smaller oven is non functioning. It is full digital oven control with ceran top.

I pulled it out with and tested with a digital meter. Strangely, it the oms reading started out at about 120 and started to quickly drop, but as it approached 39, it began dropping slowly. Took the better part of 2-3 minutes to drop to and level out to 28.2 Ohms. This seems odd to me.

I attached the meter to the element leads and turned it on Bake and the digital screen on the oven, which shows a small picture with which elements are on, indicate that both top and bottom elements are on. Yet, my voltage read is 0 (have my meter set to top level (500).

Does this suggest my control board is toast (pun intended), or is there something else I could test? Is there anyway to check connections on the control board?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, and actually, you are correct. I made an error in the model but the last 3 characters are BCB, not BRB.

Would it make sense to take off the back and follow the wires from the element to make sure there is not a bad connection somewhere, or would I be wasting my time?

I guess I am a bit desperate to find an alternate solution because the control board for this unit is $950 (here in Canada), which is complete highway robbery. Priced right by manufacturers for consumers to make the obvious choice...buy a new unit rather than fix. But that is a discussion for another thread on another day.

If it is the control board, I will either wait for a used unit to go on sale in local classifieds to use for parts, or toss this thing and buy new. For now, my wife said she can live without the bake element on the top oven if need be.

Thanks for any assistance/guidance.

Ok, so I took off the back cover of the range and tested the current directly from what I think is a relay on the back of the control board to the wire that goes into the other prong of the bake element. Same result...no reading.

I found what I believe are two relays connected to the bake element. Once is located on the back of the control board. The wire from the left prong (when facing back of range) goes directly to this relay. The other relay is mounted to the frame of the range and and the other prong of bake element AND one of the wires coming from the broiler element are spliced together into the same connector attached to this 2nd relay.

Here's the thing, and don't know if this is normal. But when I turn on BAKE, I hear two clicks in quick succession from the relay on the back of the control board and only one from the other relay). It almost sounds like the relay on the back of the control board closes the circuit, then for some reason, a second later, it opens the circuit again. However, I had my meter hooked up to the prong on the relay and I never see a reading on it when I turn on BAKE. So, this in itself may prove that the circuit is not actually closing, even for a split second. Else, I presume I would see a short blip of power on my meter.

BTW, I did test my meter on the broil element to make sure it works and got good reading, so I know my meter is not at fault.

Any thoughts on what i might do next? Or are my only options now to live with it, or buy a control board?

Thanks.

No worries! Thanks for responding.

I am willing to give that a try, but I guess the bigger question is that even if this tests leads to the conclusion that the specific relay on the board is at fault, can that relay alone be purchased and replaced, or am I still looking at a new control board module regardless?

If the latter, then I will likely simply look to buying a new range or wait for a used one to sell in local classifieds and strip out the control module.

Another question, if i did find a used range but in white (mine is black), can the control module be replaced separate from the plastic cover that has all the button symbols, or is that affixed to the control module with some sort of adhesive? (ie. could I easily pull the black cover off mine without damaging it and adhere to the replacement module)?

Thanks again.

Thanks. I did chat with a rep and they checked....supposedly it is peel and stick, so if I find a replacement, it would have to be black I guess.

I will check if I can see any numbers. If I can order just a relay, that would be great. I have a good soldering iron and solder sucker, so replacing would not be a problem.

I will post back when I have had a chance to test the relay as suggested in your previous post.