Problem with KitchenAid Stove - Blown Fuse?`?

Question

We have a Kitchen-Aid stove/oven. I accidentally switched off the main circuit (meant to switch off the microwave). When I tried to switch the oven circuit back on, no power seemed to go to the unit. The oven light worked and I could set the clock but when even i turned a dial for an element or the oven the lights and display would go out. I went back to the main circuit and shut if on and back on again. This time, when I first flipped the main oven circuit back, it would not go, it went back to the off position. After 2 more tries it went back to the on position but there was no power going to the oven.

Have I blown a fuse in the main fuse board? Is there a fuse in the oven unit itself? Is it strange that this would happen simply by moving the switch in the main fuse box for the oven from on to off and then back on a couple minutes later?

Let me know any suggestions as I need to get the oven stove back up and running.

Answer 1

You have a breaker box, not a fuse box. My first guess would be a loose connection in the breaker box - or a bad breaker - or a short in the line or stove.  The stove has 220 run to it - with 2 breakers in the panel. These 2 breakers should be connected some way (a clip or bar). One half of this circuit is running the light and clock as those item only need 110 power.  The burners & oven need the whole 220 or they will only get luke warm. If you could check the voltage at the outlet behind the stove you would get an idea where the problem is. An electrician for the wiring if there is not 220 present at the outlet - or an appliance repair man for the stove.

Answer 2

Guessing, it sounds to me like the breaker to the oven is bad or not closing fully.

The likely reason the main breaker would trip off, not reset, is that with all the other breakers on you would drawing too much power all of a sudden. Everything comes on at once, A/C or heat, refrigerator, tv, coffee pot, lights, phone, everything that was on or plugged in and/or has a clock or remote.

When you turn off the main, you should also turn off the rest of the breakers and bring the other circuits back on one at a time. Sorry to tell ya.

I would turn the main off and all the breakers, then I would make sure the stove is off and flip the breaker to the stove on and off a few times to make sure it is closing properly and both contacts. It is a little more difficult if it is a double breaker banded together rather than one with a single switch. Then I would turn the main back on and then all the breakers back on one at a time starting with the stove.

Other than that it takes using a meter to check to see where you lost power.

By flipping the main off and on, you may have created a low voltage situation drawing all that power at once and might have damaged the electronic control on the oven. Let's hope not.

Good Luck.