After 2-3 years working perfectly, my Mums oven went pop the other day, accompanied by a plume of smoke and a smell of burnt electrics. I turned the power off, then turned the oven switch to off, then the power on, seemed ok, oven switch back on then got 3 or 4 pops in quick succession, so turned it all off and called an electrical repair shop.
The lady my mum spoke to said it sounded like a faulty fan, took the details of the cooker (New World 60edom) and sent a repair man around the following morning.
The repair man spent a while looking at the cooker, then informed us that the cooker is fine, but the house electrics are in a dangerous condition. He showed me on his mega meter that the neutral wire had continuity with earth. He said he couldn't do the tracing of the fault as he was only qualified to work on the appliance, but could recommend a good electrician to do it. That cost £44 call out.
It seemed strange to me that the circuit should suddenly develop a fault so I switched off power to the fuse box and tested the cooker socket. I found continuity between the neutral & earth wire so I disconnected the neutral output wire witch solved this reading and meant it was in the cooker cable junction box or the wires in between. I didn't find a short, but I re-made the connections and the whole thing seemed ok.
I double checked the readings , re-connected the cooker and turned the power on. Then I turned the oven switch on --- big bang, flash, and more smoke.
To me it seems like it must be a cooker fault. There is no earth short now unless its too high a resistance for my multimeter.
Can anyone suggest what may have happened, and what to do now?
The lady my mum spoke to said it sounded like a faulty fan, took the details of the cooker (New World 60edom) and sent a repair man around the following morning.
The repair man spent a while looking at the cooker, then informed us that the cooker is fine, but the house electrics are in a dangerous condition. He showed me on his mega meter that the neutral wire had continuity with earth. He said he couldn't do the tracing of the fault as he was only qualified to work on the appliance, but could recommend a good electrician to do it. That cost £44 call out.
It seemed strange to me that the circuit should suddenly develop a fault so I switched off power to the fuse box and tested the cooker socket. I found continuity between the neutral & earth wire so I disconnected the neutral output wire witch solved this reading and meant it was in the cooker cable junction box or the wires in between. I didn't find a short, but I re-made the connections and the whole thing seemed ok.
I double checked the readings , re-connected the cooker and turned the power on. Then I turned the oven switch on --- big bang, flash, and more smoke.
To me it seems like it must be a cooker fault. There is no earth short now unless its too high a resistance for my multimeter.
Can anyone suggest what may have happened, and what to do now?