Electric stove heating element?

Question

This is for a rental property. The electric stovetop works but the oven does not. I took out the heating element and put it on a multimeter and checked for resistance. It showed 0.00 Ohms. Is the element bad or is something wrong inside the oven?

Answer 1

Call your landlord, its his problem.

Answer 2

hello
Try taking your tester and test the element with your tester set for cotinunity.In other words if u touch the to test probes together u should get a reading on your multimeter so when u test the element if u dont get a reading it means the element is burned out.
If u get a reading on that setting then check the fuses for the oven elements.

Answer 3

It should show a few Ohms with a digital meter on the x1 scale... depending on the Wattage. Check for an open fuse which is usually on top of the stove somewhere.

Answer 4

when you touch the two leads together what reading do you get on the meter? that element should read close to that.get a old lamp cord and put 2 aligater clips on it and plug in the cord and see if the element get warm

Answer 5

Probably the element, this just happened to my mom's oven. Take it into the hardware store they should have another one there.

Answer 6

The element is done. You can buy a new one but the landlord should look after it or is it your stove.

Answer 7

Go to a scrap yard and get a different element and install it. They are standard on all models.

Answer 8

There should be a resistance. 0 resistance means no resistance - no reason to glow hot. It should be the landlords responsibility.

Answer 9

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