I have a 24" kenmore (Frigidaire?) electric ceramic top stove. While using the oven, the oven door locked and now won’t open. Turned off breaker but no help. Now when I push the clean or bake or broil buttons, display reads “off” but no error messages- just"off" any advice?
Did you have the oven in self clean?
Stove was on but not self-cleaning. We may have hit the “clean” button by mistake.
Oven was in use but not in clean mode when it locked. We may have hit the clean button by mistake
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Doing some troubleshooting would be the only[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]way to know for sure, there are various possibilities.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]According to the parts diagram, [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The door is locked by a rod that goes from the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]front to the back of the range which is hooked [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]to a motor that turns it to the lock position. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Here are some possibilities.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Check the wire connections that go to the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]clock and the door latch motor. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]The rod could have broken loose from the motor[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]itself and is stuck in the lock position.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Another is that the motor went bad after going[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]into lock position and it wouldn’t be able to [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]come out of the clean position because the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]motor isn’t working.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Another thing to check it[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]to see if voltage is actually being sent to the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]latch motor when switching from the off [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]position to the clean cycle and vice versa.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
One posible cause could be the clock itself.