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Hi, I hope someone here can help me with a problem I have with my Creda CF50EW standalone electric oven.
The problem is the oven has stopped working. When the oven is switched on the indicator light lights ups (and stays on) on the control panel, the oven fan spins, but the oven does not heat up (The oven light inside the oven compartment had gone a few weeks before and I hadn’t got round to replacing it yet). The hob and grill still work fine.
The oven element has gone I thought. I bought a new oven element and oven bulb and fitted both. The old element had a nice big hole in it, confirming that it had failed. I switched on the oven, the oven light on the control panel came on as did the newly fitted oven compartment lamp and the oven fan. Job done.
Ten minutes latter I checked the oven temperature – stone cold. Oh $*#{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} I thought the new element must be defective. Removed the new oven element, put a meter on it and it tested fine. Bad connection I thought. Reconnected the element, tested it was connected properly with the meter and carefully screwed the element to the back of the oven and retried it. Still wouldn’t work.
Removed the oven element again and checked the two wires for continuity. The neutral was fine, the live wasn’t. Problem found.
On talking to someone they said that when their integrated oven element failed, it blew an internal in-line fuse. However, on talking to someone else they said they had never heard of an oven element being internally fused.
So my questions are- Is this model of oven internally fused and where will I find it? And how do you get into the bloody thing? I’ve looked and looked and can’t see an obvious way to get inside to check the wiring and any for any fuses.
Thanks in advance.
Paul Williams.
Re: Creda CF50EW standalone electric oven – Oven won’t heat
There is a strong possibility that when the element failed it took out the oven control/stat at the same time.
Jim.
Re: Creda CF50EW standalone electric oven – Oven won’t heat
Jim,
Thanks for the quick response.
But wouldn’t the oven indicator light (the one which goes out when the oven reaches temperature) on the control panel fail to light if the stat had failed?
Paul Williams.
Re: Creda CF50EW standalone electric oven – Oven won’t heat
Not neccessarily, may also be the selector switch. The only way to be certain is to check each of these components individually. Access is not easy it involves removal of the side panels, the hob etc. Isolate from the mains if you intend to proceed.
Jim.
Re: Creda CF50EW standalone electric oven – Oven won’t heat
Jim,
The oven is now fixed and the girlfriend is now happy (for the time being). Removed the oven top, then the front control panel to access the oven switch/stat. Job was really easy, not even a fifth of what I had feared (only 15 or so screws needed removing).
On examining the back of the oven stat, I noticed that a wire had melted clean off one side of a 2-way crimp terminal. The other side of the connecter went to the oven indicator light, confirming that the melted wire was the live to the oven element.
As I didn’t have any of these 2-way crimp terminals to hand, I soldered the melted wire back to crimp terminal, reassembled the panel and switched the oven back on, and it worked fine.
I was quite surprised that the wire had melted off the crimp terminal. Does this indicate another problem or is it just wear at the terminal or a bad crimp or something (oven is five years old)?
Thanks for your help.
Paul Williams.
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