Safety Instructions

Special features of your oven control.

Your new touch pad control has additional features that you may choose to use. The following are the features and how you may activate them.

The special feature modes can only be activated while the display is showing the time of day. They remain in the control’s memory until the steps are repeated.

To enter a special feature for either oven, you must first touch the upper oven BROIL HI/LO and BAKE pads at the same time. The lower oven BROIL HI/LO and BAKE pads will not activate special features.

When the display shows your choice, touch the START pad. The special features will remain in memory after a power failure, except for the Sabbath feature, which will have to be reset.

Operating Instructions

Help Function

Touch this pad to get additional information on the keypad of your choice.

Touch the HELP pad and the display will show “Press keypad for help on that feature or 1 for options.”

The options on pages 28 and 29 can be adjusted using the method described here or through HELP.

Care and Cleaning

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12-Hour Shutdown

With this feature, should you forget and leave the oven on, the control will automatically turn off the oven after 12 hours during baking functions or after 3 hours during a broil function.

If you wish to turn OFF this feature, follow the steps below.

Touch the upper oven BROIL HI/LO

and BAKE pads at the same time until the display shows SF.

Touch the DELAY START pad until no shdn (no shut-off) appears in the display.

Touch the START pad to activate the no shut-off and leave the control set in this special features mode.

Troubleshooting Tips

 

 

 

 

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Fahrenheit or Celsius Temperature Selection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your oven control is set to use the Fahrenheit

Touch the COOK TIME and BROIL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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temperature selections, but you may change this

HI/LO pads at the same time. The

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to use the Celsius selections.

display will show F (Fahrenheit).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Touch the upper oven BROIL HI/LO

Touch the COOK TIME and BROIL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and BAKE pads at the same time

HI/LO pads again at the same time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

until the display shows SF.

The display will show C (Celsius).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Touch the START pad.

Consumer Support

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Tones at the End of a Timed Cycle

At the end of a timed cycle, 3 short beeps will sound followed by one beep every 6 seconds until the CLEAR/OFF pad is touched. This continual 6-second beep may be canceled.

To cancel the 6-second beep:

Touch the upper oven BROIL HI/LO and BAKE pads at the same time until the display shows SF.

Touch the BROIL pad. The display shows CONTI BEEP (continuous beep). Touch the BROIL pad again. The display shows SINGLE BEEP. (This cancels the one beep every 6 seconds.)

Touch the START pad.

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GE PB976 manual Special features of your oven control, Safety Instructions, Care and Cleaning, Troubleshooting Tips

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