I have a glass cooktop with downdraft JennAir Mdl#jed8230adb, the other day the circuit blew(she thinks) my wife flipped it back on and it worked for some days, this AM it was not working and I checked, the circuit was not thrown and I could hear the fan on very quietly but no heat from cooktop. any suggestions where to start. I did a qucik check a breaker panel and get full voltage outta the breaker.
Thanks

Correction, the breaker never tripped, my wife reset the a/c compressor breaker which i had turned off for winter.

Ive done some volt testing and there is 120 volts at each prong where the glass cooktop inserts, and it does turnoff with the switch. Normally it would indicate a bad cooktop surface, but both going bad at the same time, find unlikely. and they have been turning on intermittently anywhere from full power to just warm.

two red pilot lights are also acting funny, off/on/dim, as a matter of fact one of them is completely out, could that make the whole countertop go screwy?
there really does not seem to be that many parts to the whole thing.

You measuring to ground? Should measure accross the pins and get 220-240 volts AC.



The elements?...by themselves?



Nope the pilot light shouldn't mess up other things.

I have seen where one of the surface switch contacts welds closed and that has effected other elements....not comming on fully, low or warm only.
Something loose/burnt in the mian power could/would/should effect everything at once.

jeff.

not much wiring to the unit, i opened it up and there is just one black junction box that i see.

??

jeff.

Followup, I found a schematic and looked it over, after seeing how little wiring there was and the limited possibility that the two grids and switches all failed at the same time, I took a look at the connections to the stove. After removing all the electrical tape, the "wire bolts" and wiring "looked" fine but when I put a wrench to them they were pretty loose, so now after tightening all seems fine. I learned a lesson there, you can't always tell by "looks". Let's see if it gets us thru dinner tonight. Thanks.

Hope it stays working a while!

jeff.

Ha,
My wife went to use stovetop this AM and same problem I could just slightly hear the fan going when in ON position. I went to circuit panel and cycled the breaker, I noticed a spark from the side of breaker(oven was on and load across circuit)but it did cure the problem for now, could the breaker itself be bad? The last time the wire nuts were definitely loose and i thought that solved the problem. Thanks

A bad main breaker will effect everything at once.

jeff.