Electric oven element on when switched off…. Belling 644 electric cooker

[Alec_t]

That’s the only switch/knob for the main oven

Strange. The manual here says otherwise. But that seems to be for the 637, although the link is to the 644 ! So, time for a new thermostat.

 

[Wyleecoyote]

Strange. The manual here says otherwise. But that seems to be for the 637, although the link is to the 644 ! So, time for a new thermostat.

Yeah, I kinda knew it was either switch, thermostat or both but I was surprised a fault which could turn on an unattended oven would even be possible, I would have thought they’d be some kind of fail safe

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yeah, I kinda knew it was either switch, thermostat or both but I was surprised a fault which could turn on an unattended oven would even be possible, I would have thought they’d be some kind of fail safe

The fail safe, is the oven isolator switch, on the wall.

 

[Wyleecoyote]

The fail safe, is the oven isolator switch, on the wall.

Yeah, I guess so but the way cookers are designed, with the clock and timer, I’m certain the vast majority, if not all, electric cooker owners, don’t turn their cooker off at the wall whenever its not in use.

I guess the wall switch was probably initially implemented to isolate the power supply should a fault of fire occur whilst the cooker is in use or maybe to aid in repair or disconnection.

Although the wall switches tend to be directly adjacent to or behind the cooker, which would be difficult to reach if the cooker was on fire or emitting plumes of smoke.

From now on, my cooker will always be off at the wall switch when not in use.

Currently, within 60 seconds of pressing my ovens clock to set the time, the main oven element glows bright orange, and I would hate that to occur whilst I was asleep or not at home.