I recently purchased a Hotpoint RB757 (used) for use in my cheese making business to bake cheese cakes. The oven does not heat but the cook top elements all heat up just fine. Finally none of the electronic things work (clock, timer, indicator lights). I did not have an outlet for it, so I wired up a 50 amp outlet using a 6 3 cable to a 50 amp breaker. My volt meter tells me that the breaker is working and I have 240 volts ac between the two poles and 120 volts ac between the black and white buss/red and white bus. When I tested the voltage on the outlet (was new when installed) the black and red read 240 volts ac but the black / white and red / white read about 92 volts each (should have been 120v ac). Further, then I tested the outlet with the range plugged in the red / black read 240 v but the black / white also read 240 volts and the red / white read about 19 volts. I opened up the back of the range to check the polarity and it was wired correctly. Question is why does the voltage read as it does when the range is plugged in but all functions are off. I tried leaving the range on for an hour to see if the oven would heat up, but no such luck thus far. Any ideas?
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Sounds like a breaker issue to me. The breaker for this one should be located outside (if you're in a home) near the electric meter. Open the breaker box and look for a 40 or 50 amp breaker set (your oven uses 2 separate breakers, they are side by side in the box). Even if they don't look "tripped", go ahead and trip them manually and reset them. This should get you cookin' again. *Note--> Breakers can get "weak" and trip for no reason. If this continues to happen, you should have an electrician replace your oven breakers.
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Sounds like the oven ignitor is weak. If everything else is working it must be a bad ignitor. These are usually easy to replace and can expect to pay $70-$100 for the part. Check to see if it glows when in bake mode first. If it does then replace the ignitor. You can look at the ignitor, when not on, if it is white-ish then it needs replace or if it doesn't have a full glow, can compare to broil ignitor, then it needs replaced. Let me know if you have further questions.
SOURCE: Oven top element does not come on when baking
the top element is for broil only. if you have convection mode try that
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Did this solve the problem I have the same problem
The surface burner light goes on but the burners only get
slightly warm
There is quite a simple solution - just bake your cheese cake on a lower
oven rack. When you put it on a high rack,
the liquid evaporates too quickly and it causes cracking.
Good Luck
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