There could be a few different things wrong. The element may have died. Is the fan you mention the forced air fan? No heat usually means blown fuse or faulty heating element, and since the small oven works I would suspect the the element has blown. You would benefit from getting an appliance serviceman to make a house call to replace the element. Unless you're handy and have a soldering iron, some heat resistant sleeving, and can access the back of the oven comfortably.
Hope this helps. Let me know.
John
Yes there is. You will have to access the back of the oven so that you can get a resistance meters' probes across the posts of the oven element. The oven will need to be turned off, and diconnected from the supply so flick off any circuit breaker that feeds the oven.
You're looking for a red or brown wire that is soldered onto the element post. You need to desolder this wire because it's wired in parallel with the main bottom element. Set your resistance meter to the low ohms scale. If your element is faulty you can prove it by placeing one probe on the post with the red wire and the other probe on the post with the blue or black wire (two posts may have been linked together, that's perfectly normal). A faulty element will show very high ohms. Test both the bottom and the top element.
Let me know if this helps or if you need more explanation.
John
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Thanks.
Is that the element that's at the top of the oven?
Is there a way to test if it's functioning?
Cheers for the help so far.
The main oven has 2 elements from what I can see, the bottom, which looks like it has never been used, measures 37ohms.
The top element, has 2 separate elements within the same housing. The outer element measures 46.5ohms and the inner element measures 42.5ohms.
Looks like these are all OK?
Just wondering about the switch to the oven?
The light comes on to show that the oven is on, but I'm wondering if it is actually switching the oven on?
Oops, just seen another main element, which must be the oven element in front of the fan!! (It was covered, that's my excuse anyway!!) No reading at all. I tried to bell the element as well and this did nothing, but belled out on the other elements.
No where can I get a new element from?
You probably burned out an element.
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