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Creda cooker oven fault?

The main oven heater element has once again blown on my Creda Reflection 48196 cooker..I have fitted a new element with no luck. I have checked the new element and the resistance reading across the terminals is 35 ohms..I have also checked the voltage from the cooker and this is only reading 18.2 volts.Is there a problem with the cooker output as it seems very low? Any help would be much appreciated.

Steve Long
November 2010

Creda 48196 Kitchen Appliances, Electric Cookers Oven Element Blown

i have a credaplan connoisseur built n gas oven model no 48255b serial no 82100168 the oven when gas is lit it now only stays lit for about 15 min then shuts off,we can reset it but goes out again would like to know wat the fault could b

mr bates
January 2011

You may have a faulty switch (high resistance). Isolate the cooker from the mains input, ie switch off at the breaker and measure the restance from the incoming live terminal on the back of the cooker to the oven element with the oven switch on , you should get 0 to say 1 ohms, make sure you are reading the live terminal on the element or you will read through the element and get a reading of say 30 ohms anything higher and you have a bad switch. this can happen when a element blows as it puts a high current through the switch assembly

alistair
November 2010