[khouse]

So I finally got around to opening up the control area at the front and taking a look. No obviously poor connections or charred areas. But simply reseating all of the connectors to the selector switch seems to have done the trick. It’s been working flawlessly for a couple of days.
Kicking myself for thinking it was something more complex than a loose connection that probably just vibrated from the other actions and so never getting around to just trying something so simple.
But glad I didn’t follow my girlfriend’s request to just buy a new one 🙂

Thanks Dave for the responses.

[khouse]

electrofix wrote:its probably a fault of the display or control unit

if you try to set it and it does not start if you keep pressing the button will it eventually go. All i am thinking is it may be a dirty contact in the button

Dave

Hi Dave. Thanks for the reply.
No, repeatedly pressing the OK button doesn’t do anything by itself. I just tried using it again and it’s worse than ever, but the basic point seems to be that it does not recognise that it is in a mode to heat. when it does (from fiddling with the selector, or opening the door or moving the thermostat) then it beeps and the heating light comes on. And then the OK button can start it.
Today I can mostly get it to recognise the mode (flick the selector back and forth) and let me start it, but it stops after a few seconds, so it is clearly deteriorating. Other times I can’t get it to recognise the mode at all so I can’t start it.
I suppose the obvious thing is to test continuity on the selector switch to see if that reveals anything although I’ll have to figure out which contacts it is supposed to connect given I have no maintenance manual.

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