hotpoint oven element
Electric stove surface burners not working?
I had a power outage at my house that caused all the fuses to blow on my electric stove (HotPoint, can’t find model number anywhere, about 25-30 years old). I replaced all of the fuses. The oven works fine, but none of the surface burners do (it seems everybody else has the opposite problem!). Opened the back cover & everything looks fine… no evidence of burning, charring, etc.
What confuses me is that the burners are paired in two independent circuits. I can’t seem to find anything that could explain how both of these are down & not the oven. Could the elements themselves have fried? As I said, everything _looks_ fine.
I don’t want to spend a lot of money on this stove as it is already quite old. Any ideas what to try?
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
If the stove is that old, you may want to cash it in. It’s unlikely a power failure would cause all the infinite switches to the burners to fail. If there’s no break in the surface elements they should be fine. The bottom line is GE/ Hotpoint replacement parts are more expensive than the competition and throwing parts at it, along with tearing it down tracing wiring isn’t worth the headache. As a parts/ service dude, dump it.
