live and neutral lights up

[toby8]

I removed my large electric cooker when i decorated ,and now when ive connected it back i cant get it to work. I put a neon headed screwdriver on the terminals and when the cooker is connected both live and neutral light up,but with the cooker is removed only the live lights up.(As i presume it should) It worked fine befor ,i cant understand it. Ive put a plug on the cooker just to see if the cooker broke when i moved it but the clock worked ok.
Would be so grateful for any help

 

[Steve]

Set the clock. Seriously.

You have voltage.

Many new cookers have a relay in the clock to turn the oven off when the timer expires. Not setting the clock = relay wont close. Our gas oven has a relay like this - it even shuts off the gas for us.

 

[toby8]

i only put the plug on temporary to see if the cooker was broke.It has to be wired to the connecting box,and when it is not even the clock comes on

 

[breezer]

my cooker too, pain in the butt trying to rememebr which buttons to push in the correct order

 

[toby8]

The clock does not come on at all, no electric is getting to it

 

[oharaf]

Mine to, the wife put a pot roast in the other week after I had been adding a few lights, I'd forgotten to reset the cooker, came home no tea!!!


After giving her a good beating and sending her to fetch a takeaway I realised my error and beat her agin for wanting extra lights!!!!

Moral of the story? Eat microwaveable food

P.S. Didn't really beat her, obviously I got lambasted and told I am useless.

Lights look nice thou

 

[securespark]

It's one thing having the clock flash, but toby's saying his does not light up at all...

 

[electronicsuk]

Check the tightness of all the neutral connections, the symtoms you mention suggest a loose/missing neutral although with the unpredictable nature of neon screwdrivers its hard to say for sure.

 

[mattylad]

When you originally removed the wiring, did you turn the cooker circuit OFF in your consumer unit?
If so have you turned it back on now you have reconnected it?

OK I know its a no brainer question, but we have all forgotten something so simple it makes us look stupid lol

 

[electronicsuk]

When you originally removed the wiring, did you turn the cooker circuit OFF in your consumer unit?
If so have you turned it back on now you have reconnected it?

OK I know its a no brainer question, but we have all forgotten something so simple it makes us look stupid lol

Unlikely, OP says live is present. The fact that the neon screwdriver lights on Neutral when the oven is connected suggests that the neutral isn't there.

 

[mattylad]

So it does....

 

[toby8]

Can you believe it, a cable(neutral) had come loose from the cooker switch,I had loosend it and obviously dislodged it : Thanks for your replys lads, very grateful

 

[ban-all-sheds]

 

[electronicsuk]

As much as we hate the old neon test screwdriver, it was enough in this case to diagnose the fault. Perhaps just as bad is peoples insistence on actually using them as a terminal driver, it's near impossible to get enough torque behind one to properly tighten the terminals on something such as a CCU.