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Post by comfortablynumb on Dec 20, 2020 14:38:47 GMT
Just a community FYI...the coils on electric stoves wear, and get a little dangerous. You'll be stirring a metal pot with a metal spoon and zzzzzzz you get some unpleasant feedback.
So every now and then, check your coils. Take a multimeter, set it to 600AC, stick the ground probe somewhere on the stove to ground it, turn the heat on and run the positive probe around the surface of the coil...
If it reads anything but 000. you have a current leak. Replace that coil.
After i got buzzed on one, I found the big coil was leaking 40 -100 volts off the surface. One of the small ones was leaking off 2-10 volts.
Needless to say, a bad coil leaking good enough can possibly kill you. So.... inspect and replace your coils ever now and then.
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Post by stickinthemud on Dec 20, 2020 16:58:09 GMT
Thanks Numb, I've wondered about that. Of course now DH says he wants a smooth glass top stove like DD got with her new (old but renovated) house.
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Post by thumper on Dec 20, 2020 22:25:12 GMT
Don't forget about the ones inside of the oven. People never think about them.
When they get weak they catch on fire and burn very slowly for hours. Baking above 450, broiling, and self cleaning wears them out the fastest.
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Post by redfish2 on Dec 21, 2020 18:39:19 GMT
They can catch fire as well. Btdt.  |
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Post by comfortablynumb on Dec 21, 2020 20:57:54 GMT
yea the broiler coil inthe oven did that... lit up like a christmas tree one day popping and sizzling. I removed it and capped the lines off.
Its not like vegetarians broil anything anyway...
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Post by comfortablynumb on Dec 25, 2020 3:22:49 GMT
The stove and its brand new coils bit willow while she was making cookies... Looks like the plug in doohickies under the top that the coils plug into are a bit old cracked and scabby.
So Amazon is sending me a set of new ones.
So... also beware of the coil plug in thingys.
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Post by motdaugrnds on Jan 18, 2021 12:56:35 GMT
Oh dear! This is a scary thought! My glass-top range is quite old as it was purchased around 1995 and been used daily ever since without any coil checking or replacement. The only thing that got replaced was the oven lower heating element; and it was replaced twice. Sure would appreciate a step-by-step instruction as to what "specifically" (name, sized, ect.) to buy to check range top coils with; and step-by-step as how to check them. I'm not an auditory learner and if I cannot make pictures out of your words I get lost and feel overwhelmed and dumb! Will do some googling too.
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Post by PNP Katahdins on Jan 18, 2021 16:48:40 GMT
Sure would appreciate a step-by-step instruction as to what "specifically" (name, sized, ect.) to buy to check range top coils with; and step-by-step as how to check them. I'm not an auditory learner and if I cannot make pictures out of your words I get lost and feel overwhelmed and dumb! Will do some googling too. Have you tried You Tube? There is an amazing amount of technical-made-easy info out there, not all of it accurate of course..
Peg
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Post by thumper on Jan 18, 2021 17:54:16 GMT
The coils inside the glass top just snap when they go bad an no longer work.
The coils that were talking about are the ones in the top of the oven, bottom of the oven, and the old fashion rang cooking eyes.
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