I have a stove which is 10 years old. It works perfectly well, the temp is good, heats up fine, etc.
However, it’s equiped with a digital clock that has a timer feature. This part doesn’t work - it’s stuck on ‘timer’ and won’t go back to ‘clock’ - the frigging thing keeps going off once an hour - last night I had to unplug the stove just to get to sleep.
Is there an (easy) way to disable the clock - FWIW the oven & burners all have manual control knobs - the clock is literally just a clock.
I really don’t want to a) call out an appliance repairman for a million dollars, or b) buy a new stove just because the stupid clock doesn’t work. I really don’t need the timer - I have about 10 others that work just fine.
Usually the fuse that runs the clock also runs other stuff, so unscrewing the fuse probably isn’t an option, but you might want to see what other stuff also is inactive once the clock fuse is unscrewed. You might be able to live without those options. Can you locate the fuses? Unscrew them one at a time until the clock goes out, and see what else you will have to live without.
Most times there’s a wiring diagram on the back of the appliance. You’d have to be able to read electrical schematics in order to figure out which wire you could cut to remove power from the clock. If you could copy the diagram and post it somewhere I could help. (Or find one on-line for your model?)
Barring that, you could take the back plate off to get access to the clock - with the appliance unplugged, of course. If you’re feeling lucky you could cut one of the wires running to the clock, plug back in and see what happens. Of course if you totally screwed things up you could splice the wire back together and try, try again. If you do find a suitable wire cut that works please tape the cut ends off so that a future electrical short won’t happen.
My oven won’t come on unless the clock is set though. You may be in the same boat.
If you’re mechanically inclined, pull off the front panel and unplug the clock, or at least try to find a speaker that you can cut the wires to.
If there is a circuit board and you are 100% positive it has nothing to do with any heating element or the oven, I would unplug the unit, cut the wires going to the board and cap them, then plug the whole thing back in.
Well, it can be flashing 12:00 and still come on - is that what you mean or have I missed the point - I don’t want to start yutzing around in there if the whole oven is going to quit.
I had the same problem with my stove. The repair, according to the landlord, is somewhere in the vicinity of $200, which he quite understandably doesn’t want to pay for a stove that’s still perfectly functional. He suggested I put it on a power strip instead, and it works like a charm. I’ve almost completely stopped forgetting to turn the power strip on before I turn on the oven to preheat. :smack:
Yes. My oven won’t come on if the clock is flashing “12:00.” Not sure why, but after a power outage we need to reset the clock, or the oven portion won’t work.
Nope - it’s the cheapest POS a builder can get away with installing. The pizza repair men that built my place didn’t even remember to bring stickers to put on the outside.
Mondo huge? No, it’s just a regular power strip with a few outlets and an on/off button, purchased at Walgreens or something like that. It’s not even a surge protector, just multiple outlets in a row (which I don’t actually need, but it’s what I had when the landlord suggested it), with a 4 foot cord that goes into the wall outlet. I unplugged the stove cord from the wall and put it into the power strip, so now the stove has an on/off switch of sorts. Why would you need a huge one?
Joey P, I have no idea what the voltage of my stove is, but it runs off of regular house level power. It is a gas stove/oven, but it needs the electricity to light the burners and the oven. I haven’t tried turning the power strip off once the oven is going - I don’t know if the flame stays on as the thermostat cycles off or not, so I just leave the power on while I use the oven.
That makes alot more sense. The flame should stay on when you turn the power off. In fact, even without power you can still light the burners with a match. The OP, I assume, has a electric stove/oven which means 220v or 220/110, which is a big honking plug for which I have never seen a power strip for.
It might, it also might look like a little black thing the size of a ummmm the size of a errrr about a half inch diameter and maybe 3/8th inch tall with a hole in the middle, mounted right on the circuit board. But I wouldn’t try to mess with that kind, personally.