Hey! What's with my stove?!

[rpm]

The curcuit breakers are probably easy access. You might want to check your house breakers, too. You may have 2 110V breakers instead of a single 220V and one leg tripped.

[GRUNHERZ]

Nash just to be safe go ahead and call the firefighters and the ambulance right now.

[Staga]

Naah, that's clear case. All You need is some holy water and an exorcist.

[capt. apathy]

don't take it apart.
goto the breaker box for your house and reset the tripped breaker or replace the blown fuze.

  as it was mentioned before, the controls and accessory plug run on 110v  but the heating elements are 220v (the 'big fat cord').  basically 220 is just 2 110 circuits running into the same appliance.  you've probably just blown a fuze(or tripped a breaker) for one leg of the 220v power while the other one is fine and able to power the accessories.  

the fuze/breaker is not in the stove, do not take it apart


I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it has to be said.

considering the questions you've asked and the schematic having left you with no clearer idea of the problem, I'd give you about 30:1 odds on taking apart that stove, getting it back together, and cooking one meal without involving at least one firetruck.

order take out.

[Toad]

Originally posted by capt. apathy
order take out.

Probably the very BEST advice in this thread.

There's a Doner Kebab near you. Save yourself!

Too funny, Apathy... bullseye!

[Nash]

Well I checked online, and there's a high degree of probability that I'll be able to find the fuse if I take off the back. But it's just way too late at night for that.

CaptApathy.... I located the home circuit breaker, I'm pretty sure. It's called a Westinghouse Guardomatic Load Center. It's got the switches, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where inside this thing the actual fuses are.

Again, it's just waaaay too late at night for this. I'm not even hungry anymore. I don't know how you guys do this crap.

I'll keep ya posted.

[capt. apathy]

it it has switches (breakers actually), those are instead of fuzes so stop looking for the fuzes.

look the switches over and see if one looks slightly out of position.  a tripped breaker will be slightly out of the 'on' position.  turn it off (this will reset it), then back on.  then you should be good to go.

but, and this is important, shut down your computer first, and have a flashlight in your hand.  if you switch the wrong breaker you could shut down the power to your PC (with the risks of power spikes, or other problems from power interruption) or the lights you are using to see the breaker-box,  neither would improve your situation.

if the breaker won't reset, or blows again as soon as you try to use the stove, unplug the stove and call someone who can fix it.


BTW- when you said you pulled out the stove and found a baggie, I was a little concerned that this could turn into a relapse thread.

[GRUNHERZ]

Nash, seriously, stop before you get hurt or burn the house down.

Please. No kidding man, you dont seem to have much experience with eectricity and its prolly not the time to learn.

[Furious]

Sometimes, if you lick them they will start to work again.

Like this:

[Saintaw]

Nash thank you, I now know I'm not the only one completely clueless about those things

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Nash
Uh.... how can ya tell?

Bwahhaaaahaaa. If that aint sig material I`ve never seen any. Totaly friggen, absolutely hilarious.
Reminds me of the "what`s that noise?" joke about the chainsaw.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Nash
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CaptApathy.... I located the home circuit breaker, I'm pretty sure. It's called a Westinghouse Guardomatic Load Center. It's got the switches, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where inside this thing the actual fuses are.

 [/B]

You are not gonna have fuses and circuit breakers.

[Schaden]

Originally posted by Nash
So tonight I decide I'm gonna try and cook something. I go to turn on the stove, and.... nothing.

The oven doesn't work either. But the lights, the fan, and the clock all work. The thing can't be older than a couple of years. And this thing did work fine, once... a ways back.

Busted fuse? Or is this god's way of telling me to back the hell away from the kitchen?

Has someone been playing with the auto timer, you can set some stoves to turn on their ovens at a certain time, on older models if it's set not much works......other than that...fuse.

[Rolex]

I just got off the phone with Skuzzy. He says you should reinstall the oven drivers.

[storch]

step 1. check circuit breakers or fuses at your electrical panel in the back closet behind your mound of unused stuff.  if it is a circuit breaker the lever will be "tripped" and you can wiggle it easily if its a fuse you can look through the glass and see signs of it being burned.  in either case compare by look and touch to the adjacent breakers or fuses and compare.

if it's not the circuit breaker call a professional and save yourself possible injury.  remember that electrical shock has been known to cause people to become sensible.  we here certainly don't want to lose any entertainment value so be safe, let a real man do that for you.