Troubleshooting Procedures
!WARNING
To avoid risk of electrical shock, personal injury or death; disconnect power and gas to oven before servicing, unless testing requires power and/or gas.
Component Troubleshooting
Problem | Possible Cause | |
| Power Outage | |
| Improperly set oven controls | |
Part or all of the appliance |
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does not work | Oven door locked | |
| Delayed cooking/cleaning | |
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| Poor ground on burner cap | |
Burners will not ignite; no | Weak or failed spark module | |
spark at top burner. | Low gas pressure | |
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| No 120 VAC to range | |
| Micro switch contacts not closing | |
| Faulty wiring. Bad connection at burner | |
Burner will not ignite. No | electrode and electrode socket | |
spark to burner ignitors |
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when burner knob is rotated |
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to “LITE” position. | Inoperative spark module | |
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| Electrode dirty. Burner cap dirty | |
| Cracked or broken electrode, electrode | |
| wire or electrode socket | |
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| Check for cracked ignitor or pinched | |
| ignitor wire | |
| Poor continuity to burner cap | |
No spark or only random | Bad ground connection or lack of | |
continuity to ground or ignitor | ||
spark at one ignitor. | ||
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| Cracked or broken ignitor extension lead.... | |
| Shorted valve switch/harness | |
Unit continues to spark after | Switch has slipped off the valve | |
knob is turned to OFF | ||
position. |
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Correction
•Check power supply/circuit breaker
•Verify oven controls are properly set
•Verify oven door is unlocked after a
•Verify oven is not set for delayed cooking or cleaning program
•Clean burner cap.
•Replace spark module.
•Verify pressure 4” WCP for natural, 10” WCP for LP.
•Verify voltage at wall outlet.
•Check wiring against appropriate wiring diagram, Verify all terminals and connections are correct and tight. Check micro switch contacts.
•Check wiring against appropriate wiring diagram. Verify all terminals and connections are correct and tight.
•Check module according to testing procedures information.
•Clean electrode or burner cap.
•Replace electrode.
•Replace ignitor lead or electrode.
•Clean burner cap and lead.
•Tighten ground connection and correct any breaks in ground path from ignitor path to unit ground path.
•Replace ignitor lead.
•Replace switch/harness. If shorting is caused by excessive spillovers, customer education is advised.
•Carefully reposition switch on valve and rotate from OFF to high, several times to verify switch is not broken.
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