Re: fuse overloaded by oven

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:51:04 -0500, Chris Hill wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:48:38 +0000 (UTC), Charles T Smith
<cts.private@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Do ovens decay?

We've lived in this house for about 10 years. The electrical stove has
worked reasonably during that time but now it's time to replace it.

We have tried two used ovens that we'd had in (dry) storage and both of
them pop the circuit breaker.

The original one would also pop the circuit breaker about once a year or
so, but would work okay after resetting it. But both of these new used
ones pop and re-pop the circuit breaker so that they are unusable.

The interesting thing is that they don't pop the 3-ganged oven circuit
breaker but the main apartment circuit break (40 amps).

We had an electrician out to look at it (from an electrical utilities
store), and my wife said he "tested" the stove (but not the house mains)
and said that the insulation was insufficient.

Is that possible? Do ovens degenerate in storage?

Why does the main circuit breaker break and not the heavy one dedicated
to the oven?


Are you sure about the breakers? 40a for an entire apartment with an
electric oven sounds pretty small. My guess, you have your breakers
crossed, the 40a should be for the stove all by itself.


The 40a fuse is in the top left of the picture at
http://www.geocities.com/cts.private.
You can see the oven fuses in the lower row to the left.


Anyhow, this
must have been working in the screwed up condition for a good while. My
guess is that your old stove didn't draw near the current the other ones
do. It could also be that the breaker is getting old and failing,
they'll do that.


Ah, that's a thought.


I'd start with a competent electrician who should be
able to tell you if somebody screwed up.


Thank you.
.

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