My best guess is its probably a bad relay on the control board. The relay's contacts get burnt and make poor or no contact and often get very hot. Hot enough to un-solder them from the board or burn the board where they are attached.

If you are good at soldering, you could just replace the relays that are bad. Otherwise you'd have to replace the board. Your model number is missing a digit. Should be a 0, 1, or a 2 at the end of it.

GR563LXSS0 or GR563LXSS1 or GR563LXSS2

For GR563LXSS0 this is the part. Not cheap looks like $354

https://www.appliancepar...w10116718-ap6015205.html

https://www.appliancepar...w10116718-ap6015205.html

https://cdn11.bigcommerc...85479.1662409330.jpg?c=1

You'll need to check your board, but if its the same one in the picture then the two rectangular black boxes on the left are probably the bake and broil relays. They have OMRON printed on them. There is a part number on these G2RL-1A-E-CF . 9VDC is the coil voltage and 16 amps / 250 VAC is its rating.

You can get these from a number of places, ebay or Digi-key, etc.

https://www.digikey.com/...G2RL-1A-E-CF-DC9/1789804

Not sure on the hidden element.

Thanks again for the information. I attached a photo of the control board on my range together with the photo your provided. It looks like a match. The upper relay on the left side probably goes with the bake element.

Tomorrow I'm going to the parts place here in Anchorage that has Whirlpool parts. If he has a relay in stock I will try fixing it. Otherwise I think I'm going to buy the replacement control board so my wife can have her range back and then try to fix the old one to see if I can do it. I found a place online that sells the control board for $229. It's supposed to be an OEM part.

Thank you for the video on the bake element. I watched either that video or a similar one. But my range is different than that one. It has that opening with the insulation but there are no wires or ends of bake elements that stick out. I removed the screws holding that wire harness to the back of the stove and that's all it is, a wire harness for 3 sets of wires. There are no other wires besides the 3 pair you see. I see nothing that goes into that opening with the insulation. I didn't want to poke around in there too much. I would have declared this range did not have a bake element but they show one in the parts diagram. I can see why they call it a hidden element.

I guess I can't send the photos. Does this forum have a particular site to link to photos? I don't want to take up too much of your time. I really appreciate the help you have given me.

Moderators: Yesterday I tried to post a couple of photos of my electric range. As I posted it I got a message that it was being sent to the moderators. I apparently didn't do something correctly. That post with the photos was never posted nor has anyone contacted me regarding the post and photos.

ThatGuy

I use Google to share photos and videos so I tried using Google to post the photos. It obviously didn’t work. I noted this site uses http whereas Google uses https, a more secure version, but I wouldn’t think that would have stopped the transfer of photos.

I replaced the oven control board tonight. The bake element and the broil element both work. I put the oven in Pre-heat mode at 350 degrees. After 5-6 minutes the alarm said the oven was pre-heated but the oven thermometer said the temperature was only 150 degrees. I waited and eventually (12-15 minutes) the oven temperature reached 35o degrees. Other than the time difference everything seemed to work ok. Is that time difference significant? Does the oven need calibrating?

I looked the old control board over. The bake and broil relays (K1 and K2) showed some brown residue/discoloration around them. Is that an indication they are damaged? One of the modules on the far side of the control board (k3) also showed some brown residue around it. I will try to replace all 3 if I can find them.

I am still puzzled about the location of the hidden bake element on my range (GR563LXSS1). The video you posted shows the ends of the bake element protruding from the insulation in the small open panel on the back of the range. The bake element is then accessed by removing the bottom panel inside the oven chamber. My range has the open panel on the back but there are no bake element ends sticking out. There are no wires in or out of the panel opening. The baking chamber of my oven is continuous. There is no bottom panel to be removed to access the bake element. Another video for model GR563LXSS 1 showed the heating element in the open at the bottom of the oven chamber.

It looks to me like the only way to access the bake element is to remove the right side panel of the range (as looked at from the front of the range). On the back of the range there are 2 red wires that split off from the cluster of wires that go up the center of the back of the range. I took several screws out of the right side panel so I could follow the wires. There is another metal panel behind the right side panel and the two red wires go in behind that second panel. The right side panel would have to be removed to access it.