Hey experts,
I've got a 9-year-old Frigidaire PLEB30T8ACB double electric wall oven that is giving me fits. A while back the bottom oven quit working. I checked the elements, but I've got continuity. I checked the oven sensor, it checks out okay. Now the top oven is not maintaining temperature. The broil element works, but the bake element does not. Again, I checked the element, and it's got continuity, and the oven sensor is fine.
Anything else I can check that would be relatively inexpensive to fix? To replace the control boards would cost me over $300, and I'm a cheap-ass. Thoughts?
Its possible your thermal fuse in the back of your lower oven is blown. You would need to turn the breaker off to your double oven, then get someone to help you pull it out from the wall, then take off the back access panel and ohm out that thermal fuse for continuity with a ohm meter, you can get a cheap volt/ohm meter at Radio Shack.
Here's the location of your thermal fuse in the back of your double oven, its #119 here:
You can also check the voltage going to the bake element at the control board. It's common to have one of the relays on the board go bad. Unfortunatly if thats the case, you'll need to replace the control board.
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Here's the wiring diagram for your model. Hope it helps.
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Rick,
You've been doing this for many years and have extensive experience. What am I most likely looking at? Control board issues? Thermal fuse issues? Or what? So far I've lost one element at a time. If it's most likely a control board problem, I'll just bite the bullet and get the new part. I can return it if I need to (my parts store is cool that way).
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