I have a Diplomat touch control ceramic job from Howdens/Mfi. Had it
for around three years with no issues - however this morning it simply
doesn't turn on. No beeps or anything.

As it's an electric touch sensitive thing, there's no buttons to press
to reset or anything like that. There's a main on/off switch for the
hob on the wall and this appears to be functioning - when switched on,
the light on the switch glows red and it goes off when the switch is
set to off.

I'm guessing there's an internal fuse or something in the hob itself
that may have blown?

Any ideas what may have gone wrong and how easy/hard to fix?

FYI - the oven works fine. It has it's own wall switch.

Thanks for any advice.

Sam

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 05:29:21 -0800 (PST), Sam
wrote:

I have a Diplomat touch control ceramic job from Howdens/Mfi. Had it
for around three years with no issues - however this morning it simply
doesn't turn on. No beeps or anything.

As it's an electric touch sensitive thing, there's no buttons to press
to reset or anything like that. There's a main on/off switch for the
hob on the wall and this appears to be functioning - when switched on,
the light on the switch glows red and it goes off when the switch is
set to off.

Does it have a childproof setting? My Bosch touch control ceramic hob
can be 'disabled' by touching the on-off 'button' for several seconds
- likewise to reactivate it.

--
Frank Erskine

On 1 Feb, 16:22, Frank Erskine wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 05:29:21 -0800 (PST), Sam

wrote:
I have a Diplomat touch control ceramic job from Howdens/Mfi. Had it
for around three years with no issues - however this morning it simply
doesn't turn on. No beeps or anything.

As it's an electric touch sensitive thing, there's no buttons to press
to reset or anything like that. There's a main on/off switch for the
hob on the wall and this appears to be functioning - when switched on,
the light on the switch glows red and it goes off when the switch is
set to off.

Does it have a childproof setting? My Bosch touch control ceramic hob
can be 'disabled' by touching the on-off 'button' for several seconds
- likewise to reactivate it.

--
Frank Erskine

Hey Frank,

That's a good idea! Let me check...

Cheers,

Sam

On 1 Feb, 16:42, Sam wrote:
On 1 Feb, 16:22, Frank Erskine wrote:



On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 05:29:21 -0800 (PST), Sam

wrote:
I have a Diplomat touch control ceramic job from Howdens/Mfi. Had it
for around three years with no issues - however this morning it simply
doesn't turn on. No beeps or anything.

As it's an electric touch sensitive thing, there's no buttons to press
to reset or anything like that. There's a main on/off switch for the
hob on the wall and this appears to be functioning - when switched on,
the light on the switch glows red and it goes off when the switch is
set to off.

Does it have a childproof setting? My Bosch touch control ceramic hob
can be 'disabled' by touching the on-off 'button' for several seconds
- likewise to reactivate it.

--
Frank Erskine

Hey Frank,

That's a good idea! Let me check...

Cheers,

Sam

Oh well... that didn't work. The hob seems well and truly dead. Any
other ideas?

Thanks!

Sam

Huge wrote:
On 2009-02-01, Sam wrote:
I have a Diplomat touch control ceramic job from Howdens/Mfi. Had it
for around three years with no issues - however this morning it simply
doesn't turn on.

Excellent. Now you can throw it away and get a decent hob.

What a useful, informative and polite, response..