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Oven light keeps burning out
I have a 5 year old GE Profile Electric DOUBLE Wall oven. Convection on top.. Conventional Oven on bottom. There are two bulbs in each oven with glass covers. I cannot keep bulbs burning in the top oven. Either Socket. The bottom oven is no problem. Bulbs in the bottom oven last years. The double oven has a single 220 volt service with neutral. So this eliminates a neutral problem coming to the oven. I think it also eliminates a problem with the socket unless I am unlucky enough to have two good sockets in the bottom oven and two bad sockets in the top oven. I had attributed it to too much heat either from self cleaning or convection and the heat was migrating to the top of oven case and getting the top bulbs too hot. Any thoughts?
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 3:23:12 PM UTC-5, wrote: Hello all. I have a 12 year old GE built-in oven and over the past couple of months the interior oven light keeps burning out, I've gone through about six or seven since Nov/Dec. The lamps generally burn out when I open the door or push in the oven light switch, but not (with one exception described below) after the bulb has lit up. I did a Google search of web pages and newsgroups and came up with a couple of threads, one about light bulbs around the house often burning out and one about oven lights burning out. Both threads suggested checking to make sure an impedance problem with the neutral line wasn't causing an imbalance in the voltage on either side of the neutral. Apparently, the symptom,would be a high voltage reading in the socket. I checked the voltage in one of the kitchen sockets and it read 118.2V. I then put one lead of the voltmeter on the copper center contact of the oven light socket and the other lead on the threaded part of the socket and read the same 118.2V. As an experiment, I left one appliance bulb on for about 8 hours and it survived and I turned off the light. But the next day when I opened the oven door the bulb flashed and failed. I also tried a cheap 40W regular bulb, which survived baking something in the oven but burned out after a few hours when I experimentally left it on after I was finished baking. That experiment was probably flawed though, maybe regular bulbs don't survive baking. I've tried GE, Philips and Home Depot appliance bulbs. I partially pulled out the oven and could see where the oven was connected to the house wiring. From what I could see, the wires were connected with twist connectors and then the bottom of the connector was wrapped in electrical tape. The only thing I can think of is maybe the door and light switch are corroded and when they make contact, they're making a bunch of interrmittent contacts, cycling the bulb many times before a good contact is made. That would effectively put the bulb through dozens or hundreds of power cycles. That might burn out a bulb quickly and explain why the bulbs haven't failed when I left them on for hours at a time. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of problem? I'm not an electrician but is there anything else I can try to see what the problem is? Thanks. |
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