Dryer was working fine in the morning, by the afternoon, the dryer stopped drying clothes, checked the filter, the exhaust line and the eletrical contact elements. All are good. The Drum spins, Air blows from the exhaust, the timers are working, but no heat is being produced to dry the clothes. Any Ideas what might be the deficient part? I don’t want to order every single Thermometer element for the dryer if not necessary.
I’d rather pay a few bucks than pay Thousands for a new Dryer and matching Washing Machine.
Take off the back and use a multi meter to test for continuity on the thermostats and to test for Ohms on the heater element (should be 10 to 12). If one of the thermostats is bad, replace all (not expensive and will save problems in the future). If the element is bad, replace it. If none are bad, post back with your results.
First try flipping the breaker off/on slowly a couple times. Sometimes you can loose half the line without actually tripping the breaker and the heating coil requires the full 240 volts.
If this does nothing.
Measure the voltage at the plug
L1 to L2 should be 240 volts
L1 to Neutral and L2 to Neutral, both should be 120 volts.
If OK
Unplug the unit and check the wires at the unit’s terminal strip to ensure they are properly connected and none of them have burned off
If OK
Plug the unit in and check the voltage at the terminal strip. This is just in case you have a bad line cord. Be careful 240 volts is lethal.
If OK
Unplug the unit and check the heating coil and thermostats etc. for continuity.
Heating coil, should be 12 ohms approximately.
Thermostats and thermal fuse all should be 0 ohms.
As sidfink43 said if the heater’s thermal cut off is blown there are other things that should be checked to find out why it blew.
Be sure to disconnect one side of and device you are measuring this prevents reading an alternate/parallel circuit path. Also use your most sensitive ohms scale.
There is a good Sticky at the beginning of this forum on meter usage.
Thanks for the guidance and the wiring diagram. I was just going to go ahead and order all the parts that I thought might be the issue, but this will save me a few bucks.
