tickedntexas
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I am glad I found this website. It is nice to see I am not alone in my problems with my Kenmore. I have a problem that I wonder if someone may have encountered before. My Kenmore Elite Evenheat will not warm up. I had the heating element and thermal fuse checked by a tech. They told me they couldn't check the thermistor, but when I check it I do get resistance, sometimes. I am not sure if this is really a problem with the thermistor or the multimeter. I am thinking the mm because it seems to me the circuit is either open or shorted. I have looked at the board and it seems okay, but I may not be seeing the problem. I have been wondering if it is maybe the heat relay switch. Does anyone know if you can test for this? Does anyone have any other suggestions. I have followed the suggestions in the other posts here, but nothing has worked. My dryer starts and runs, just doesn't heat up. I spent three hours on the phone today with Whirlpool/Kenmore/and Sears. Of course, since the dryer is 13 months old and I didn't purchase an extended warranty, I am at fault. Funny, I even got the guy in charge of the Kenmore call center to admit that he only has one Kenmore product (at last count every appliance I have, which is 7, are all Kenmore). I digress.
If anyone has come across this problem, or knows of other possible causes that I could look into, I would sincerely appreciate it.
Also, I don't have a wrinkle gaurd switch, so I cannot perform any of the factory tests.
Thanks for the great posts and website. It has been a real find.
I am glad I found this website. It is nice to see I am not alone in my problems with my Kenmore. I have a problem that I wonder if someone may have encountered before. My Kenmore Elite Evenheat will not warm up. I had the heating element and thermal fuse checked by a tech. They told me they couldn't check the thermistor, but when I check it I do get resistance, sometimes. I am not sure if this is really a problem with the thermistor or the multimeter. I am thinking the mm because it seems to me the circuit is either open or shorted. I have looked at the board and it seems okay, but I may not be seeing the problem. I have been wondering if it is maybe the heat relay switch. Does anyone know if you can test for this? Does anyone have any other suggestions. I have followed the suggestions in the other posts here, but nothing has worked. My dryer starts and runs, just doesn't heat up. I spent three hours on the phone today with Whirlpool/Kenmore/and Sears. Of course, since the dryer is 13 months old and I didn't purchase an extended warranty, I am at fault. Funny, I even got the guy in charge of the Kenmore call center to admit that he only has one Kenmore product (at last count every appliance I have, which is 7, are all Kenmore). I digress.
If anyone has come across this problem, or knows of other possible causes that I could look into, I would sincerely appreciate it.
Also, I don't have a wrinkle gaurd switch, so I cannot perform any of the factory tests.
Thanks for the great posts and website. It has been a real find.