Kenmore Elite Double Wall Oven Will Not Heat

The heating element plugs into the back of the oven and is usually held in place with a couple of screws.

Kenmore elite double wall oven will not heat. A weak igniter will glow but it won t get hot enough to ignite the gas so the safety gas valve won t open and the oven won t heat. Oven will not turn off. Most kenmore frigidaire and electrolux electric wall ovens have a safety switch called a thermal switch on the back of the appliance that trips if temperatures in the oven get too hot. If the igniter gets weak it will fail to open the safety valve.

First the igniter draws electrical current through the oven safety valve to open it. Second the igniter gets hot enough to glow and ignite the gas in the oven burner. But now it is doing it again. It s on a constant broil and burns everything.

When i set the oven to a given temperature it will beep at me as being ready but the inside thermometer will show that the temperature is anywhere from 25 50 degrees below. When i turn on my oven to say 350 it s like it doesn t know when to stop heating. This happened about a year and a half ago and we were told to clean the sensor in the back. Ihave a kenmore elite oven model 790 4660 the lock feature came on oven door locked clear stop will not respond.

The igniter is the most commonly defective part for an oven not heating. If your kenmore frigidaire or electrolux wall oven won t heat after you run the self cleaning cycle the thermal switch might have tripped. A broken igniter won t glow. So i placed an over thermometer inside it one that hangs from the rack.

The door did unlock. I have a kenmore wall mounted oven model 911 47629100 and i noticed it was not heating properly. Depending on the cooking mode you select either the bake element at the bottom of the oven or the broiler element at the top should glow red as the temperature increases. Consult your owner s manual for instructions on how to remove and replace the faulty.

We did and it has worked again since then. For a gas wall oven that isn t heating check your gas supply cut off valve to make sure it s open.