Electric oven tripping switches

[FartKong]

My electric oven started tripping the switches a few months ago when it was turned off and now you cant turn it on at all without the trip going. Ive taken it out and had a look for loose wires but everything was connected and I couldnt see any wires being crossed etc or touching anything they shouldnt be.

Has anyone got any ideas what it could be? Sometimes you can get it to come on by pure luck but when you go to turn it off it'll trip the switches again.

[andy43]

Do you have an rcd fitted? Could be a wiring fault, or the oven itsself.

[FartKong]

Yeah its the RCD that trips every time the oven is switched on. Its definitely something wrong with the oven.

[eps]

How old is the oven? Might be time to replace.. It's probably something inside that's worn or worked itself loose.. but it might be a right PITA to self trace and could cost a lot to fault find, if paying someone..

[convert]

Mine started doing this a couple of years ago.

Turned out to be a dodgy thermocouple. Cost about £20 for the part and took about 15 minutes to fit it.

There's a good forum you might try, something like ukwhitegoods, pretty helpful folks and good advice.

[John MacK]

If it's a fan assisted oven it could be the fan that's faulty.

Try a setting without the fan if you have one, and havn'e tried it already.

[illmonkey]

convert said:

Mine started doing this a couple of years ago.

Turned out to be a dodgy thermocouple. Cost about £20 for the part and took about 15 minutes to fit it.

There's a good forum you might try, something like ukwhitegoods, pretty helpful folks and good advice.

www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk
www.diynot.com

Both excellent knowledge for this kind of thing.

[FartKong]

Cheers chaps I'll check out that link. I cant even switch it on at the wall now without it tripping the RCD.

[FartKong]

I took the cooling fan out today and the oven now comes on fine so it looks like something has gone in the fan.

[eastlmark]

make and model would help.
would you ask for car assistance without at least telling us who made it?

Edited by eastlmark on Saturday 13th February 19:32

[FartKong]

Here's the one -

http://www.baumatic.co.uk/b187ss-a_21_99_9667.html

[eastlmark]

its unusual for a cooling fan to cause a problem although not out of the question, you need to megger check it from the tags to earth. Has been known for wires to chaffe against the fan and short out though or the thermostat that initialises it to burn out itself.
Dont use it without the fan though!

[FartKong]

Replaced the cooling fan last weekend and its fixed it. Only £36 directly from Baumatic which was handy.