A week back I turned my Hotpoint electric stove on high in order to boil some water. A few minutes later, when the coil was hot, it suddenly arched to the metal drip bowl. When it cooled down, I removed the coil and inspected it. The coil had a hole in it about 1/8th of an inch in diameter surrounded by a small amount of metal slag.
I finally got around to trying to fix it yesterday. I inspected the coil receptacle and it looked fine, so I bought a new coil and inserted it like normal, turned it on and got nothing. No heat at all. I brought out the voltage detector and with the stove turned on, I have a hot wire running to the receptacle.
Is it possible that the receptacle burnt out and that need replaced? Anyone ever replaced one of those? It looks like too simple of a thing to burn out without being able to see it, or smell it.
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The receptacles do burn out. I’m about to get a new stove so not considering fixing the same issue with mine. Both wires running to that receptacle should be hot. Also, make sure the burner plug is all the way in the receptacle.
Yeah, I’ve replaced receptacles. I also replaced the thermocouple, oven controller, one of the burner coils, and the oven heating element (not all at once), and then my wife told me to stop fixing the damn thing and just buy a new stove.
Anyway, they can go bad. Sometimes the contacts get corroded and then when you fiddle with them (like when you replace a heating coil) the contact breaks. If you are lucky it might just have some carbon buildup on the contact from where it was arcing and you can just scrape that off. If the contact underneath the carbon gunk isn’t damaged, you can still use it. If it is damaged though, the receptacle will need to be replaced.
I’ve had issues with new coils not making good contact with old receptacles due to the contacts being a big worn and not so springy. Bending the coil ends a bit so that they made better contact fixed it.
Every stove that I’ve owned was wired with the burners between L1 and L2, so two hots, as TriPolar said in his post.
Two hots, that makes a lot more sense. For some reason my brain must have stopped thinking as soon as I saw power getting to the coil.
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