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My IKEA (Whirlpool) oven is tripping my RCD, it appears to be a thermostat, I'm guessing it's as simple as measuring any earth leak (ie resistance live to earth) and ordering a spare?
Semi-urgent as a lodger has just bought a chicken 🙂
just solder a spoon across the contacts 😉
Worst oven ever is my experexper of IKEA / whirlpool. I'd use it as an opportunity to junk the whole thing.
All of my electrics are already so configured 😂
It's usually a short circuit in the heating element.
likely the element , often very easy to change , if you are handy you can remove the element and
check if the trip still goes - if you do not understand the electrics then get somebody who does.
https://www.elementman.co.uk/elements/fan-oven/ikea/
Had similar a couple of years ago - tripping due to knackered element. I have zero electrical skills but managed to source and replace the element. No one has died...yet. How have you narrowed it down to being the thermostat? (He asks, despite having zero electrical skills... 🙂 )
Semi-urgent as a lodger has just bought a chicken
Pea and ham soup tomorrow then?
Percy - that's clever!
Deadly, it's not the light, and I guessed a thermostat would be more fragile.
CP I've got better things to spend £300 on
Others - ta
It trips on grille only btw, so likely the grille element?
Fo Sho
Chickens usually live for at least 4 years, so there's no rush
:applause: @perchy and indeed @-al
Semi-urgent as a lodger has just bought a chicken
It trips on grille only btw, so likely the grille element?
Why are you cooking a chicken under the grill?
It also trips on the oven setting actually :(. but not the light.
Normally I wouldn't advise this in the UK, but...
Get the chicken (in a baking tray and covered with foil) on a kettle BBQ using the indirect heat method. 1 1/2 hours later and amazing chicken is produced. No need for an oven when the weather is so nice (Unless you don't have a garden + BBQ).
Failing that go to the pub.
Sorry no practical advice about the oven.
As others said, element is most likely and easiest to fix. Our main oven is on its 5th element, I always have a spare for when rather if. Always trips the RCD when it blows.
It's also unlikely you will be able to measure it with a multimeter in my experience as they can just be cracked and need a higher voltage to track across the crack. You might be lucky though.
And good to see Percy showing age
Pea and ham soup? From a chicken?
Pea and ham soup? From a chicken?
Clever. Isn't it? 😉
Well it was the lower element. Oven is 9 years old, may be worth ordering 2, given my frozen pizza habit.
Cheers all
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