Oven Issues

[Ogre]

Need some help. I have a Whirlpool oven (model Rt377pxg) that is having issues. It is taking 15 minutes for the oven to get to temp, usually takes 6. Lower element comes on during bake and the upper comes on during bake. Any ideas out there???

[thebayratt]

Check your breaker. It should be a double pole 40amp. If one side of it is tripped it will either take a long time to heat up or not at all.
That or your elements may be on thier way out.

[Ogre]

thanks bro, I will check the breakers when I get home.

[emopunker2004]

o noes! the mad baker thwarted by oven troubles!

[justonemorestick]

Also you should be able to check resistance of the elements if one is significantly different from the other then one is bad. I am assuming it is a electric I am too lazy to figure that one out. If it is gas check your orifices make sure they arnt clogged.

[kelmac07]

Did the Mad Baker tear that oven up Larry? :r :r

[Remo]

Need to get that fixed,,,,more rum cake!!!

[ArgusP2]

...check your orifices make sure they arnt clogged.

:r:r

[OLS]

thanks bro, I will check the breakers when I get home.

While bayratt COULD be right, surely, it is actually more likely to end up being the FUSE, the little
glass screw-in jobbie. It could be either, but I know when this happened to me, right at freaking
thanksgiving, haha, it was a fuse which took out one leg of the....thingie. Of course then that
begs the question, what blew the fuse. You will want to keep an observant eye out on that in the
future, see if it does anything else bizarre. Might have a bad element that blew the fuse. But fuse
or breaker first off.

[taltos]

I have old style double cartridge fuses for both my oven and my dryer. When one side failed on a circuit, the heat was the first thing to go. If you have the cartridge fuses, replace both of them at the same time, it is real difficult to detect the blown one.

[Ogre]

Its all good now guys. Took the Temp Probe in and had it tested. I was told how to adjust the temp settings and now its all good.