Well I learned today that if things turn really bad in this economy, at least I can find a job as an oven repairman.
Our oven has been on the fritz for the better part of 6 months now. It started out every once in awhile complaining with an F-code that the oven was overheating. This then turned into multiple F-codes about overheating and the temp sensor being bad, and then it just generally lost its mind. Finally I got fed up when it started beeping at 2am about overheating (it had not even been turned on for more than 24 hours). So I bought a new temperature sensor. Turns out that was a major pain to replace, because it required moving the oven, which turns out is bolted to an airduct running through the kitchen floor. Fortunately I realized this before ripping it to shreds.
Immediately after replacing the temp-sensor I turned the power back on and it started beeping and gave me an F-2 error code. Well I muttered some “F” codes of my own back. So now I was stuck; should I buy a new oven or perform a brain transplant on this one. Both options were expensive, but getting a new oven was 5-10x more expensive (not to mention not being able to find a down-draft oven that isn’t a nightmare of lameness that is Jenn-Air). I decided to go with the brain surgery option.
Thanks to Google new control computer arrived amazingly quickly. I finally figured out how to get the front panel off and removed the old computer and replaced it with the fancy new one. Wired it all back up, put all the screws back (I had 2 left over from the air duct, but I couldn’t get them back in — oh well) and then proceeded to power back up. Luckily no dreaded F-codes and I proceeded to cook a pizza in it without the F-codes and oven shutdown that inevitably happened when we used it before the repairs.
–Wayne