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Our oven packed up on Christmas Day in the middle of cooking dinner. The red temperature light lit up on the front and stayed on permanently at any temperature above 100 degrees. I have taken the oven apart and found the top element/grill seems to be heating up OK but the lower element is stone cold. However what concerns me is that there are signs of arcing. The element has clearly been in contact with the tray that is directly beneath it. The element does have a rail fitted to it to keep it away from the tray but looking at it, it doesn’t seem to do anything as part of the element seems to come down lower than the rail. The element is secure and has not dropped at all although I am not sure if the tray underneath is slightly warped in the middle, possibly causing the contact. Has anyone heard of this before? Should I replace the element and the tray, if so where can I get the tray from? Or do I just have a funny shaped element?! Many thanks, Mark.
Re: Indesit FM23KIX electric oven – lower element arcing
I have just removed the tray directly below the lower element and it is warped. I have called the number for Parts on the Indesit website but they do not sell this item. Does anyone have any idea where I can get one from? Many thanks, Mark.
Re: Indesit FM23KIX electric oven – lower element arcing
mark your getting into expensive territory, its probably just the element thats gone, and it shouldnt set you back more than 50 quid.
im worried how you knew the top elements heated when the bottoms didnt after you had already stripped it.
do not live test!!! :zap:
Re: Indesit FM23KIX electric oven – lower element arcing
Hi, thanks for the reply. I did not live test the elements, you could feel the top one getting warm but the bottom one didn’t. I have scrapped the oven now anyway, after a couple of calls to some parts suppliers no-one does the tray in question which is definitely the cause of the arcing – it is really distorted in the middle and is making contact with the element so if I replaced only the element the problem would quickly reappear. Thanks anyway.
Re: Indesit FM23KIX electric oven – lower element arcing
markengland wrote:which is definitely the cause of the arcing – it is really distorted in the middle and is making contact with the element so if I replaced only the element the problem would quickly reappear.
really unlikely, the only reason the element could arc to the tray was if the element had split thru the insulation and outer casing, even so, replacing the element should fix it, itd be unlikely to short out if the new elements casing was touching the tray, until the insulation failed again.
the tray is probably only warped due to heat, on this machine, besides i thought the lower element is below the main cavity anyway????
anyway you know best, clearly.
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