Half of stove working?
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Half of stove working?
We've had an issue with a breaker tripping(single pole) when a couple of eyes on the stove are on, the oven, the microwave , and/or using an appliance in an outlet close to the stove. It kills the outlets, microwave, and the eyes and oven of the range, but not the display. It's been like this since we've moved in here. I got brave enough to look in the panel and found that one leg of the stove is in a single pole 30 breaker, the other is ran up the box to another double pole breaker and piggy backed under one leg there. There was another single pole that had a piggy under it also. I got a new double pole breaker for the stove and unpiggy backed the other one.
Now the eyes and oven still don't work, display does though. I have 120v on each side of the range breaker. What am I missing? Any advice is appreciated, as I can't afford an electrician right now.
Now the eyes and oven still don't work, display does though. I have 120v on each side of the range breaker. What am I missing? Any advice is appreciated, as I can't afford an electrician right now.
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I'm not quite following you. If it's a 240v stove then you need to have 240v at the stove and it should be on its own two pole breaker...... not shared with anything else.
Some pictures of your wiring would be helpful. http://www.doityourself.com/forum/el...-pictures.html
I'm not quite following you. If it's a 240v stove then you need to have 240v at the stove and it should be on its own two pole breaker...... not shared with anything else.
Some pictures of your wiring would be helpful. http://www.doityourself.com/forum/el...-pictures.html
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Electric stove top, 4 burners/eyes, electric oven. It's on its own double pole breaker now, it wasn't before. The display that shows the oven temp, timer, and clock is working, nothing else is. And its my problem cause I own the house. I have not pulled the stove and checked voltage at the outlet yet. It all worked fine when it was split and piggy backed under the other breaker, with the exception of tripping the single pole when everything was on.
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It's on its own double pole breaker now, it wasn't before. The display that shows the oven temp, timer, and clock is working, nothing else is.
I have not pulled the stove and checked voltage at the outlet yet.
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Its an old Federal Pacific "Stab-loc" panel, 200 amp. The breakers are getting hard to find, or should I say hard to find reasonable. The electrical place here in town wanted $160 for a double pole. I got it off Amazon for $46.
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I'd suspect the breaker first. I've see ones a customer got cheap that were so poorly made they fell out of the box from their own weight. Use a multimeter to check the voltage at the breaker.
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It was the breaker, not a faulty one, but installed wrong. I don't know how to describe how it's made or what I did wrong. I can't get a pic to pop up for some reason. But I slid it down and split a slot and it works great now.
Thanks for getting me thinking. I was about to put it back like it was till I could afford an electrician. Thanks again.
Thanks for getting me thinking. I was about to put it back like it was till I could afford an electrician. Thanks again.