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Flame from electrice heating unit with range turned off

After the electric range was turned off, there was a flame coming from the heating element. There is a single heating element across the bottom of the range that circles around the perimeter. A flame was coming from a section on the right of that element about midway down. There was no like foot burning, it looked more like a welders arc.

  • NVeyes Dec 24, 2008

    Where do you get the bake elements?  This just happen to us too!

  • Anonymous Jan 01, 2009

    What controls the bake element? Should that be replaced too?

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Your bake element blew out. Easy to replace... turn off the power (unplug) and replace the element by removing two screws holding it into the oven. Then you have two wires to the element and they either push on or have screw on terminals

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The heater may also malfunction because it's grounded. To test for this, set the VOM to the RX1 scale and remove the leads to the heater. Clip one probe of the VOM to a heater terminal and touch the other probe to the heater housing. The meter needle should jump to a fairly high reading. If the needle flicks back and forth at a low reading, the heater is probably grounded and should be replaced. Here's how to replace the heater:

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