Stoves Oven Timer Clock Cutting Out

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Customer says the clock keeps playing up and doing strange things like resetting itself to auto, flashing and cutting out completely so that the oven is dead. I’ve been here twice and each time the clock was dead when I arrived, although there was power to the oven. When I turned off and on the power the clock came back on and would set and work fine with no problems including all functions on the oven. I’ve checked elements etc for earth faults and they are fine. Is it just a faulty timer breaking down? Anyone had this problem?

Any Help Please

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Re: Stoves Oven Timer Clock Cutting Out

Sounds like the clock is failing. You can easily diagnose this by temporarily looping out the white relay on the back of the clock so that the clock has no influence at all.
To do this neatly and safely, replace the single tag with a piggyback tag on the single wire going to one terminal of the relay then refit it. Pull off the other wire (usually double) and connect the other wire from the other terminal onto the piggy tag. Then get the customer to run it as normal. Because the relay switches the oven on and off, the ‘looped out’ clock can come on, go off, flash or die to its heart’s content and the oven will still work. If it now works OK, new clock is required. But because you have fitted the piggyback tag in this way, the wires can be returned to their original positions on the new clock with no fuss.

HTH,

Steve.

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Re: Stoves Oven Timer Clock Cutting Out

Thanks Steve.

I did know about bypassing the clock relay, but hadn’t thought about doing it temperaraly to confirm its the clock and not some other intermittant electrical problem. I’ll give it a go.

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