What if you hear a loud POP while trying to test the wiring with a ohmmeter device in a oven and the display goes blank?

[Imaginer]

Capacitor?

 

[konichiwa]

My first approach would be to difibrulate the 19th layer flux generator.

 

[Vikaden]

fuse?

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

You either had it on Ohms, or the leads setup to read amps. If you checked it with power on, either way it will either blow the fuse or the meter, which ever comes first.

No caps bro.

 

[Spook]

Thats why yours supposed to A)Remove power, and B)Dissipate your caps... You've probably blown your Ohmmeter, but it could be a fuse...

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

In the words of Jeff K....



<< NOW. do not touch any parts though because they can shocks yuo. EVEN WHEN YUOR COMPUTAR IS OFF!!!! electtircity is stored inside teh cirtuits and shoots around like littal retards until yuo touch them and then yuo have electricityey inside yuo!!! and then it runs around inside of yuo, shocking yuor inside body parts until yuo die, then it goes into teh coffen, then the ground, and then it electrocutes trees and when it rains trees shots teh electrciity into the clouds who shots it back as lightening and the lightening goes into power plants and they powar plants turns lighteningning into electricitey and shoots it into compuatrs AND TEH CYCAL OF LIFE CONTINUES1111111 >>

 

[kamiam]

probably blew out the bridge rectifier circuit... probably shorted the meter leads to ground while checking voltages... thats why they have those stickers that readDANGER OF ELECTRIC SHOCK...NO CONSUMER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE

 

[jonnyGURU]

I'd say yous blew the fuse....



....if'n it has a fuse! :Q

 

[etech]

If the pop was from the meter(I assume it was since it doesn't work now), I would agree with Monel. If you had the meter set on ohms and measured a live circuit it will put a large current through the meter and possibly(in your case probably) blow the circuits in the meter.

Tip, always check the circuit for voltage before measuring the ohmage.

In the case of an oven, unplug the thing before you work on it!! Then check again that it is unpluged, then look one more time. Electricity kills.


kamiam, ovens do not have a bridge circuit. edit, second thoughts, there may be one in the ignitor circuit, havn't had to work on mine yet.

The meters I use(Flukes) are fused on the current inputs, but I don't believe they are fused on voltage or ohms. Experiance, I have blown the fuses and they still work on voltage and ohms.

 

[Imaginer]

I am pretty sure the thing has a fuse but a quick check shows no.

And maybe my dad was setting it to amps or something. The meter still worked.

It is an electric and gas oven by the way and the only thing that was on is a orange indicator saying on on the display. All the green displays are out and gone.

The reason my dad was inside the oven is to replace a burner but with no luck. He then tried to measure something underneath the oven and there was this POP!

 

[Pretender]

LOL Monel, no matter how many times I go to the jeffk site, I still find his overcloaking yuor PC article hilarious.

Thanks for the laugh

 

[element]

lmao @ Monel' jeffk post