Electrolux EOB944 - oven trips circuit breaker

[eastevenson]

Hi all.

After being switched on for a few minutes the oven trips the circuit breaker in the house fuse box. I've disconnected various components inside the ovento try and see if I can stop it from tripping the RCD. Disconnecting the elements didn't have any effect but when the oven fan motor was disconnected the oven stayed on.

Before I order a new one, is it a safe assumption that the motor is the problem, or could disconnecting it also disable some other component on, say, the main PCB that could be the faulty bit?

Thanks,
Ewan

 

[Taylortwocities]

ASk an appliance engineer (perhaps on the APPLIANCES forum?)

This isn't an ELECTRICIAN'S problem

 

[eastevenson]

This isn't an ELECTRICIAN'S problem

It might be an electrician's answer

Anyway, i was in a hurry and missed that forum wheni scanned through the list. I'll pop over there and ask, thanks.

 

[Taylortwocities]

This isn't an ELECTRICIAN'S problem

It might be an electrician's answer .

It wouldn't be an electrician's problem this close to Christmas!

Ask the mods to move your whole topic.

Have a good one!!

 

[captaincaveman1]

I would be surprised if it where the fan motor its more lightly to be the fan element which is losing its insulation when hot after a few minutes have you tried disconnecting just the fan element and running it

 

[eastevenson]

Cheers Taylortwocities - fair point

I would be surprised if it where the fan motor its more lightly to be the fan element which is losing its insulation when hot after a few minutes have you tried disconnecting just the fan element and running it

Yep, tried that. As I said, disconnecting the fan was the only thing that stopped it tripping.

 

[captaincaveman1]

that model has a two ring element which is prone to doing what you said but if say it works only with the fan disconected then i can only agree the fan motor is at fault but i really do find that extremely strange

 

[eastevenson]

Thanks. I had initially thought that it might be the safety cutout stat. It looked a bit grim when I opened up the oven but I think that it was just 10 years of being sprayed with hot, greasy fumes from the top vent fan

Out of interest, is it OK to briefly short out / bypass the safety stat for testing purposes?

 

[captaincaveman1]

you can but only for testing purposes