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Posted by CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert on August 24, 2005, 10:00 am
Good Music wrote:
> Has anyone else had or heard of anyone having problems with GE / Hotpoint
> ranges that get some kind of short in the broiler which causes it to
> suddenly light up as bright as the sun and start sparking & flaming, like a
> road flare, right at the electrical connection on one end at the back wall
> of the oven? And when you turn the oven control knob "off", and the
> electric "power" light goes off, but the broiler stays energized and you
> can't turn it off?
>
> We had this happen today. It happened all of a sudden. We had the oven
> (not the broiler) turned on on our GE / Hotpoint MODEL#: RB757 range (7
> years old). It had been on about 4 minutes preheating. Then it made a loud
> POP and lit up bright as the sun inside the oven compartment as sparks and
> flames shot out the place where the broiler coil connects to the electrical
> contact in the back wall of the oven.
>
> When the fire trucks arrived and the firefighters rushed in, they kept
> spraying it and it just kept hissing and smoking but stayed lit up real
> bright at that one point and on fire (I had turned off the control knob and
> assumed maybe there was some food stuck on it that was causing it to still
> burn, but they said no, it's still energized.). As soon as I switched off
> the breaker, the bright light and fire and hissing immediately ceased.
> There was no food on the element.
>
> They dragged the range out the front door and onto the concrete driveway and
> doused it, and said I should contact the manufacturer, which I will.
>
> But first I want to see if this has happened to others. I looked for any
> evidence on the web of this happening to anyone else; all I found is one
> person said she got "E2" or soemthing error code displayed on her range and
> the broiler would come on even with the knob in the "off" position, and had
> to turn it off at the breaker. But she didn't have the sparks and fire.
>
> Any evidence of this not just happening to us is appreciated. Thanks,
>
> - Bobby & Susan
>
>
>
>
Why didnt you pull the breaker before you called the fire department? I
am assuming this is an electrical model and not a gas one? Sorry I dont
own this model I don't think, and don't know of this happening to anyone
else. Ill check my model when I get home, but mine is gas and I assume
yours is not.
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Respectfully,
CL Gilbert
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and a robber."
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