[FONT=Book Antiqua]When cooking for my boyfriend, I noticed that his oven was running kind of hot, to the point that the kitchen was too warm to stay in while baking. Then, when he was using the rangetop, he heard a loud ‘pop’ and the stove went dead. Any ideas?[/FONT]
A model number may help other help you.
First check that you have power to the stove.
Try flipping the breaker off/on slowly a couple times, sometimes you can loose half the line without actually tripping the breaker.
If this does nothing, check the voltage at the plug
L1 to L2 should be 240 volts
L1 to Neutral and L2 to Neutral, both should be 120 volts.
If OK
Unplug the unit and check the wires at the terminal strip in the machine to make sure none are loose or burned out
If OK
Check the power at the terminal strip.
[COLOR=“Red”]Be careful as 240 volts is lethal !!! [/COLOR]
If power is there then open the unit up and try to find what the “pop” was. Something blew. Could be a component on the control board, a shorted wire, an element, etc.
Often when there is a pop this is an electrical problem that causes a voltage spike which then blows the control board.
Also a better explanation would help.
When you were using it was it just hot or was it overheating?
When he had the pop was he also using the oven?
All I know atm is it is an Amana. He lives an hour away, so I’ll have him shoot me the model number when he gets home from work. Twice in two weeks before the popping incident, when using the oven the whole kitchen would get super hot. As in, I was sweating while the roast was cooking in the oven. When the ‘pop’ noise occured, the oven was off, he was using a burner on top to heat up some water. It is a glasstop stove, that much I do know:)
Thank you so much for you help. I’ll be heading over there with my meter this weekend:)
A woman with tools is a dangerous thing..lol.
I cannot really comment on the heat in the kitchen.
If the roast turned out OK and took the expected time to cook I have to assume that the oven was regulating the temperature correctly.
It could be the stove also turned on a stove top element but you probably would have noticed that and usually the oven and stove top have separate control systems.
A woman with tools and some knowledge is a service tech.
Just to let you know I will be unavailable this weekend.
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