Baumatic Builtin Cooker Issue

[steveinuk]

Hi there,

Hopefully someone out there can give me some advice.
I have a Baumatic Built in cooker, possibly mode B180.

The cooker seems to have an issue with staying on! Its not the main supply because the LED clock stays on and the timer is still decreasing and the alarm will still go off.

The cooker shuts down, the fan stops and the power and temp LEDs go out. A gentle (sometime hard) tap on the left side of the front control panel usually gets it springing back in to action. Sometimes it will stay alive for a few seconds, sometimes its fine throughout the rest of the night. This is very frustrating as you can imagine (especially when the Roast is cooking).

Has anyone come across this issue and does anyone know enough about these control panels to tell me if its worth having a go and looking for a loose connection in the panel? I didn't want to do this if its unlikely to be this.

Rgds
Steve

 

[fido]

On some cookers there is a thermal overload cutout somewhere on the inner casing panels. This may be the culprit. It is usually a small bakelite cylinder with a metal flange screwed to the appliance and has 2 spade terminals. To test it you can take off the wires and join them using a bit of stiff wire poked into the female spades.