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Daphne Surdin Posted on Nov 09, 2006

Oven shuts down

The oven will start to preheat and after its done a locked door light flashes and the oven shuts down. It will not come back on after that until it cools. The locked door light keeps flashing. We do not know what this means as we have no lock on the door nor is it a self cleaning oven. Please help!!

  • Anonymous Mar 24, 2014

    WE start the oven it works , but it shuts off on it's own and I have to wait until it cools down before I can start it up again

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My mother-in-law's oven was doing the same thing. At first it was actually turning completely off which led me to think it was a loose connection on the circuit board. That turned out to be exactly what it was. I had to dismantle the front of the oven, remove the circuit board, and resolder the connections. The first time I did this I must have missed a few bad joints and that's when it started doing what you described (shuting off and showing lock door). I pulled it back apart and found a few more bad solder joints which I fixed; so far so good. This is of course one of those "don't try this at home" fixes but it least lets you know what is causing the problem.

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Anonymous

My mother-in-law's oven was doing the same thing. At first it was actually turning completely off which led me to think it was a loose connection on the circuit board. That turned out to be exactly what it was. I had to dismantle the front of the oven, remove the circuit board, and resolder the connections. The first time I did this I must have missed a few bad joints and that's when it started doing what you described (shuting off and showing lock door). I pulled it back apart and found a few more bad solder joints which I fixed; so far so good. This is of course one of those "don't try this at home" fixes but it least lets you know what is causing the problem.

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