Grrrr... Fault code on my E'lux induction range during self clean
pudgybaby
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Comments (55)I don't know about the 5F. The condition you describe sounds just like what happens when the Range is "Locked." On the extreme left of the control panel is a "Lock" Icon with a 3 in it. Is it possible that someone rested their hand on that for 3 seconds? Unlocking the Control Panel & the oven door requires pressing that Icon for 3 seconds also. Good Luck. I have had mine for two & a half years now with no problems. I frequently lock mine when not in use. Even though my two cats "know" not to get up there, they might "forget" when I'm not around. Another safe guard would be to not leave any pans or kettles on the surface when not in use. This way, even if a surface unit was accidentally turned on, nothing would happen. It actually wouldn't even go On with nothing there....See Moredid my new induction range repair itself?
Comments (13)The stove does plug in, but we were under the impression that we needed to upgrade to 50A, and so we did that. Our stove is not the slide-in (which sells at Sears in Canada for $3699, full price). Ours is the free-standing range, which sells for $3199, full price. But we got it for a price match of $2799, plus there were some Sears deals included (gift card, points which can be redeemed when you pay your bill, and a delivery rebate.) I'm pretty happy with the price, but tonight I baked a cake, and now the top portion of the first digit for the oven temperature display is missing (ie. the #7 now looks like a #1)...See MoreProblem with Electrolux induction range
Comments (28)Hi All , The GREEN harness. I have been slow and methodical in the diagnosis of this problem. Usually once a design is in production, the testing has been done and the design and device are solid and ready for the wild.....they fail due to a bad part or connection. My brother inlaw for years fixed TVs. He said use your five senses first. He would pop the back off and with a mirror on the wall. He would smell , look , listen and then start banging around the innards with the plastic handle while watching the mirror.....bang bang wait picture for a second....turn driver around push gently on circuit board...oh there picture. Look crap solder joint...fixed. I took out the controller pcb...under a microscope inspected all soldering. Nothing looked bad....resoldered anyways....and NOPE still E15 ...grrrr. I then carefully unplugged and cleaned each harness attached to the pcb. So removed washed in 99% Isopropyl...replaced and waited. This took about 2 weeks to clean replace and wait to see if fault returned. I did this because in my rat brain I thought the flaw in the design is these PCBs and all the crap interconnected, live just outside the oven door. We have all seen the alien snot that builds up on the kitchen fan...even the one way up on that high spot. I could feel same snot although lighter all over the assemblies under the touch pad. I guess the engineers thought the fan pushing air out to cool the coils would stop this and it sort of does .Open the door during a roast with water in the pan to keep smoke down and that huge blinding waft of steam ,smoke is more than the fan can keep at bay. (ANSWER HERE) The E15 fault kept returning ...until the weird GREEN cloth insulated harness was cleaned and replaced. I have not seen the fault since. This harness connects to the green connector then heads over to the left and connects to what looks like a power supply or power conditioning board...it has a couple big transformers on it. Is this the ANSWER we have been seeking ...Clean and reinstall green colored harness ? I build design and electronics for a living. 99% of the time something stops working it is bad solder joint or some other weak connection. The cable harnesses all could be prone to getting contaminated at the tiny little spot where the contact touches the pin. With steamy smokey goodness spewing out from the oven . Just as we open the door the gap between the door seal and oven face is literally directing all the vapors and smoke into the cavity the electronics live. The fan in the oven in convection mode adds to the pressure coming from the gap....and does not stop pushing until the door is open far enough to activate the door/light switch. My guess is during design test and dev phase all the white coats kept the oven very clean. They needed to have few real world oily spills and other mishaps build up and maybe they would have caught this flaw. I think the goo build up is why the fault is so random. The other really stupid design flaw is how a stove spill can get into the backside on the oven door glass. What a pain to clean. Oh and the macros for common heat up cook rest....they don't even save to memory. This appliance is great if the goo build up issue was solved...the oven door mess issue could just be troughed over so it NEVER hits the glass and the macros could be saved to eeprom so even a power outage does not erase them. Firmware updates would be nice too....if there was a USB port...there is not. I will close now my episode of war and peace of crap .I would like to thank Electrolux for completely not giving a crap about selling this at a premium and ignoring all of us out here....See More3 days with the Kenmore slide-in induction range
Comments (35)Well, I am getting a new range delivered tomorrow. Tech that was here was on the phone the whole time with someone else -- he really didn't have a clue. Finally, he said they want him to start swapping out computer boards and it will take a minimum of 2 1/2 hours. I said "no way -- I want a new range." Went up to Sears and told my saleman -- he said no problem. I tried hard to get them to throw in installation ($149) -- it took us about two hours connect and level the range. The most they would do is split it with us so we said no thanks. I really think it is a hassle to get a new range at this point but I don't want to start off with one that is defective. beachlilly -- actually, I meant do you lockout the cooktop and oven when you are cleaning the control panel? If you don't it beeps at you and tries to start the oven because the controls are so sensitive....See Moredodge59
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