philips kettle HD 4681 ´lights on, nobody's home!'

Feb 26, 2009 1 Replies

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I'm trying to fix this electric kettle, (it looks less than 10 yrs old maybe about 5 years old) for a friend. Not an 'electronics repair' I know, but I don't know any good 'white goods' repair groups, maybe someone could point me in the right direction....

Apparently it got left on and boiled dry. Now, when you try to use it, the power switch neon is lit but no heat comes. it stays like that indefinitely.

I measured the element (in circuit) and got a reading of some 6 ohms. no idea if that's good or bad. my gut feeling is that there's a thermal protector gone o/c. I 'm tempted just to say junk it and get another as I really don't want to spend (=waste!) much time on it...:-/

any thoughts? TIA

Shouldn't be hard to follow the element wiring back thru' the boil-o-stat to the connector, via any thermal breaker that may be in there. Lots of domestic items like this have a wire ended thermal fuse fitted. It's usually a silver metal tube perhaps 4mm diameter and 10mm length

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There is a small water heater in my wife's cafe that has a small leak from the water tank. If it gets accidentally left on over the weekend, all of the water leaks out, and it effectively 'boils dry'. This results in the thermal fuse opening. In this particular heater, it is pushed up the inside of a metal tube that is inside the tank, so any similar fuse in your kettle, may be likewise 'hidden'.

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