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Maytag is so cheap that they can't even install some circuit protection.
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lmester:
My wife was recently complaining that the top oven in our Maytag gas range was not heating.  I found that the gas igniter element was open. Installed a new igniter and it still wouldn't light. Some more troubleshooting found this:



With no circuit protection, the failed igniter had caused some traces to be burned off of the control board. I looked up the part on the internet. It's about $300 for a new control board.

It was an easy fix to bridge the burned traces. Someone without electronics experience would be buying a new board. All because Maytag was so cheap that they didn't put a $0.50 fuse on the board. Or even worse they may have decided that the lack of protection would help them to sell more new ranges.
MarkS:
Looks to me like they DID install a fuse!  :-// :-DD
thm_w:
Is there one igniter for the entire oven or multiple?

Looks like some use a sparking style, and others a glow-plug heater style.
lmester:

--- Quote from: thm_w on May 03, 2023, 09:36:23 pm ---Is there one igniter for the entire oven or multiple?

Looks like some use a sparking style, and others a glow-plug heater style.

--- End quote ---

The range has two ovens. There are two hot surface igniters (glow plug) in the upper oven. One for the oven and one for the broiler. The lower oven has a single hot surface igniter. The top burners use the spark gap igniters. I should probably replace the bottom oven igniter. It has about the same amount of use as the top oven. I might not be so lucky if I have another shorted igniter. It's lucky that the short didn't damage the relay. I looked up the relay part #. Mouser electronics lists it. It's made in China and on many months back order.
coppercone2:
ah the myth of the PCB fuse strikes again

real fuse : vaporizes wire in a closed tube that contains the byproducts. Nice clean disposal with no exposure.
pcb trace fuse : vaporizes some fiberglass, epoxy, copper and colorant and vents it in to your kitchen. Get to scrubbing strange chemicals, son

 :palm: nom nom chemicals

Kinda feel like its just a tad not well thought out. The company risk matrix factors me in as expendable ....
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