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Stoves Range oven w Induction hobs. About 8yrs old. Never been the best quality but has worked ok.
Tripped the RCD in use last night.
When RCD and MCB reset, Oven isolator turned back on (all oven functions OFF), brief (<0.5s) signs of life on LED panel, before trip sound within the oven and RCD/MCB off again.
Ive tried tuning on the Oven only (with all other circuits on the MCB off) to check its not a collection of earth leaks but it goes straight off again.
Ive checked the time controller and that seems fine.
So, is it possible that a blown heater element can leak to earth sufficiently to trip the RCD even when the oven control switch is off?
Not much help, but seeing as an oven is basically just a clock, a fan and a heater element I'd strongly suspect the element.
Elements aren’t expensive, you may need to do a little digging to find one though.
if you are reasonably practical you will find it fairly easy to replace.
Is it possible to remove the element and then try switching it on (the oven generally, not the hot bit)? If it's the element itself that's faulty then that might allow it to not trip the fuse. If it's something else then it should still trip.
its likely that it will be a N-E fault, with the RCD tripping without anything else being on, 99% this will be the element (as others have said) the other 1% is a damaged wire but thats highly unlikely.
Elements are reasonably standard pieces of kit and usually easy to remove with only spade connectors. Of course apart from the one you are about to do that will end up in you jamming you fingers and toes taking it out, stabbing yourself with a screwdriver, loosing a screw or two and chipping a floor tile along the way for good measure* 🙂
* it wont but thats what usually happens to me 🙁
Turin, yeah you need to pay attention that’s for sure.
its quite satisfying to fix something rather than bin it tho eh.
Oddly I actually did my Smeg Range oven on Easter Monday before brekky.
It tends to do an element yearly and I've pretty much got it down to about 10 mins.( an er about 3 weeks putting it off)
Mines requires of 3 screws, 1 thumbwheel and 2 little bolts 3 tagged wires that slip onto it.
Obvs if your not into this electrikery stuff get a suitable qualified grownup but its pretty old school stuff.
I've had those symptoms with a blown element. Had to change it twice now over the last few years. Some ovens are designed so you can do it all from the front - sadly not the one I had which was specially designed to make a very easy job a frustrating pain in the arse.
Thanks guys.
Im back from hols (how surprising oven blows the day we go away?!) so first job in the morning is to pull the element out and check resistance, and probably pop up to the appliance repair shop to order a new one.
Our 9 year old Britannia went through two main oven selector switches in 3 months and then the whole thing died in a similar manner to yours.
I ordered new fan, grill and top oven elements, plus a new switch for about £130 (not Britannia parts, they would have cost more than three times as much) and did it all myself... works like a dream now.
It was not a difficult job, just a bit messy and quite fiddly for my fat fingers.
There were loads of different wires, so I would recommend taking lots of photos before you start dismantling and label the wires as you go.
Good luck!