Need urgent advice please

[emmie]

My Cannon gas cooker has gone on the blink, and no idea whats wrong, it was fine this morning.
The gas supply is coming through no problem, but the digital panel is not
lit, which usually shows the time, but that's out. I Have changed the 3a fuse, plugged it in but it went bang, tried another fuse did the same thing. Have phoned Indesit company but they have quoted £ 134.00 flat charge, and a probable five day wait, which is impossible. Any advice before i call someone from Yellow Pages. Please

[emmie]

anyone, please please as having an incredibly bad day.

[mazie]

Hi em.....You might get more replies if you put this in Chatterbank...I know it shouldn;t go there but if you are desperate I would. Good Luck with it x

[emmie]

of thanks

[Ankou]

is it a standalone cooker ?

is the power only for the ignition and internal light ?

3amp fuse doesn't sound quite right, you sure thats what was in it ?

[emmie]

standalone, def 3a fuse was in it, i tried a 5a that went bang too.
turn on gas, can smell it, but won't ignite, and the display panel light is def out. Usually says time of day 10.12 or whatever, sorry this has been such a bad day, i spent half the afternoon as well with the ISP to reset my wireless router as i lost all broadband, and we spent an age getting it reset, so i am totally peed off.

[Ankou]

try replacing the fuse and trying the plug in a different socket.

have you done anything to the oven recently? washed it out etc?

[emmie]

changed fuses, moved the plug to another socket, it did the same thing, would putting a 13a fuse in the plug make any difference, or is that overload. Had it quite a while but its been as good as gold, and a lot of money at the time.
no haven't done anything to the oven at all. I have to shut off electricity supply when change fuses etc, as don't like the electricity live, always think one day will be electrocuted.

[emmie]

i changed another 3a fuse, tried different socket same thing, bang, and there seemed to a little flash of blue light, sorry can't be more specific at the rear of the gas oven, just as switched supply back on. Either that will have to find yellow pages, or accept the £134 quid, but im totally teed off abut that. That's the third thing that has gone awry, Hi-fi, laptop lost all connectivity, and now this. I am wondering if someone has been tinkering with the ectricity supply in the area, but so far all other applicances work ok. I couldn't even get us some lunch, or dinner for that matter.

[paddywak]

Can you get to the insides of the unit? If you've blown as many fuses as you say there is defiantly a serious problem some where and if it has "Flashed" you will probably be able to see some signs of burning.It might be something as simple as a connector burnt off which you could fix yourself, but failing that you'll have to get an expert in. Is it an old cooker? if it is it might be nearly as cheap to treat yourself to a new one

[Mattk]

If gas is coming through then why not manually ignite? This will keep you going temprorarily at least.

[paddywak]

I forgot to add what ever you do don't keep increasing the fuse size, you'll only end up doing some really serious damage to the cooker and perhaps to yourself or an innocent by-stander

[emmie]

Had no choice but to call out gas engineer, be here tomorrow saturday, i sincerely hope this day gets better.

[emmie]

I can try manual light, confess gas/elctricity scare me half to death, as i dont really know what i am doing. Engineer coming tomorrow, but can see this as an arm and a leg, had it for a while, but new was over 600 quid, so its why im reluctant to shell out more for new one. No i won't increase the fuse anyway, it had a 3a in it, assume as its been there for a while that its standard. Thanks for the advice.

[AlBags]

Have you split something over it .. or had a boil-over?
Liquid has probably caused a short in electronics.
Use manually without plugging in electrics until it's looked at!
Al.

[emmie]

Albags I did as you said, it does work by lighting manually, it hadn't occured to me that it would work, so thank you, an engineer here tomorrow

[Mattk]

erm I believe I was first to suggest manually igniting! ;-)

[emmie]

mattk apologies i am in such a blasted state, router on laptop went awol yesterday, the hi fi had a glitch, which took days to resolve but with help from nice people on here got it sorted, and then the cooker stopped working, so no lunch yesterday, add having to find a gas engineer,
80 quid call out, and that i am sure is just the start.

[AlBags]

I get that all the time Matt : )

Glad it's keeping you going Em.
Just make sure first the cable attaching to the power outlet from cooker has not been burned or trapped/damaged anywhere.

A.

[Jemisa]

I'm interested em what the outcome was, so do come back and let us know.
Hope too today is going to be a better day for you.

jem

[emmie]

Jem indeed, having to wait around for people too, when you have other things you need to be getting on with.