"Pete C." wrote:


Jim Elbrecht wrote:

My 4 yr old Kenmmore Gas range started acting weird yesterday.

Set it and it would come up to temperature-- but wouldn't maintain the
temp-- it essentially just went off, though the indicator light stayed
lit.

I cooked a roast by turning it off and back on every 15 minutes or so
for a couple hours.

I ordered a $30 temperature sensor from repairclinic.com. It will be
here Wed--

Just wondering if anyone has any other thoughts in the meantime.

Now that you've included that it's a gas range, that brings up a whole
new batch of possible issues.

My other post was on the cooking group-- I wasn't even thinking of
asking abut it until you made me doubt my original diagnosis-- Small
world. I only read 3-4 groups these days and see a lot of the same
folks on more than one.

If it's coming up the the correct temp and
then shutting off, the temp sensor is ok. Is this a pilot type or
intermittent ignition type of oven?

It has the ignition coil.

Your issue here would seem to be in
getting the burner reignited when the temp has dropped by the hysteresis
amount.

That's how I see it.

Jim