HI, my oven has stopped working ? i dont know why, can anyone help me out.?

Question

it is a SHARP R218D model. It was working fine till yesterday. The light inside is on but the it is not heating anything that is kept inside. everything looks fine except the heating which is missing.

Answer 1

Try moving the heating element around push it in to make sure its making contact. If it is a self cleaning oven and you use that feature you could have burned up the heating elements. In the self cleaning mode it gets so hot,( that's how it cleans it self by burning stuff off) that it hard on the heating elements. those are the rod looking things in the oven that get hot.

Answer 2

If it's a microwave, and to my knowledge, Sharp doesn't make full size ranges yet, try moving the door up and down, (not a lot,), but just whatever movement is available, by the handle when it's closed and the light is on. Ours sometimes doesnt' get a real good contact with the door safety switches and doesn't come on till we mess with the door. If that doesn't work then it may be the magnetron tube, in which case, it's probably not worth fixing.

Answer 3

I infer that this is a microwave oven. If so, the magnetron may have died, and in any event it is probably cheaper to replace it than to try to repair it. I picked up a microwave last month at Wal-Mart for forty bucks, which would buy maybe a half hour of repairman's time -- parts extra, of course.

Answer 4

Try fiddling with the clock on the front - Im not familiar with your particular model, so I may be wrong. But I know the older models, sometimes if the clock or timer arms in a funky spot it stops the over from working! Fiddle with them and kep trying the over.

Answer 5

have you checked the fuses/ circuit breakers? stoves run on 240 volts, the light on 120. one fuse could have burned out and you would think you still have power. you do, just not enough to heat the elements for cooking.