Philips built in oven flashed and died

[admin]

Our built in oven (details below) was cooking a chicken the other day when it began to hum loudly, then gave a big flash and popped the trip switch on the fuseboard.

I’m confident that it’s of an obselete type, so I don’t know whether to…
-(a) send for an electrician
-(b) take it somewhere
-(c) push in the trip, and continue to use it until the next flash
-(d) consider it uneconomical to even diagnose
-(e) give up chicken

would anyone care to give me a nudge in one of those directions?

Thanks

Eddie
BS16

Philips
AKG313 WH 01
874700077
15031
3 30

[admin]

Re: Philips built in oven flashed and died

oops should have said
-(f) get out my screwdrivers and start taking it apart

Eddie

[Brains]

Re: Philips built in oven flashed and died

Eddie

Get someone in to take a look. Normally if a circuit breaker trips, this indicates a possible insulation failure.

Sometimes as result of the fault, the cooker control switch (on the wall) is also damaged.

😉

Regards

[admin]

Re: Philips built in oven flashed and died

Thanks Brains. I’ve got a domestic appliance engineer coming tomorrow. I described the events to him and he suspects the “element”, so he’s spirited up a new one.

Regards

Eddie

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