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Sears / Kenmore / Roper /  Whirlpool / Kitchen Aid Dryer Typical Heating Element Replacement

Heat Element Testing and/or Replacement

Warning

Warning

Electrical Shock Hazard

· Disconnect power before servicing

· Failure to do so could result in personal injury or death.

Electrical Shock Hazard

· For your personal safety, you must check the following parts if the heat element has shorted out (blown fuses).

· Timer

· AII thermostats

· Drive motor start switch-contacts 1 M and 2M should be open).

Failure to do so could result in personal injury or death.

OHMMETER REQUIRED

This heat element is located in the heater box in the back of the dryer. This element is used to heat the air passing over the clothes.

See Type A for two terminals or Type B for three terminals.
STEP 1 Disconnect the electrical power supply

STEP 2 Remove the rear service panel

TESTING

STEP 3 Remove one wire at a time, carefully labeling each wire according to the terminal marking on the heat element. This procedure should assure that the right wire is reconnected to the right terminal.

STEP 4 You must know how to use an ohmmeter.

STEP 5 Set the ohmmeter scale to the lowest ohms setting and ZERO the meter. See the instructions that came with your ohmmeter.

 

Read steps 1-5 of this procedure

TYPE A

Type A for two terminals
STEP A Touch one ohmmeter probe to one of the terminals.

STEP B Touch one ohmmeter probe to the other   terminal.

STEP C The ohmmeter should show between 5 and 50 ohms.

STEP D If you do not get this reading, the element is bad and needs replacing

 STEP E Touch one of the ohmmeter probes to any one of the two terminals.

STEP F Touch the other ohmmeter probe to any bare metal (heater box) on the dryer.

STEP G The ohmmeter should show an open circuit. If not, the heat element is bad and needs replacing.

Electrical Shock Hazard

· This heat element should not be grounded.

· Make sure the heat element is retained by the insulators and does not contract anything else.

· A grounded condition may cause an overheat condition or shock hazard.

· Failure to do so could result in personal injury.
 

'I'YPE B

Type B for three terminals
Read steps 1-5 of this procedure.

STEP A Touch one ohmmeter probe to the middle terminal (H2).

STEP B Touch the other ohmmeter probe to the outside terminal having two wires (H1).

STEP C The ohmmeter should show between 1

and 4 ohms.

STEP D If you do not get this reading, the heat element is bad and needs replacing.

 STEP E Touch one ohmmeter probe to one of the outside terminal (Hi).

STEP F Touch the other ohmmeter probe to the other outside terminal (H3).

STEP G The ohmmeter should show between 6 and 10 ohms.

STEP H If you do not get this reading, the heat element is bad and needs replacing.

STEP J Touch the other ohmmeter probe to any bare metal (heater box) on the dryer.

STEP K The ohmmeter should show an open circuit. If not, the heat element is bad and needs replacing.

STEP L Check the other two terminals as in steps

I,J&K.

Electrical Shock Hazard

· This heat element should not be grounded.

· Make sure the heat element is retained by the insulators and does not contract anything else.

· A grounded condition may cause an overheat condition or shock hazard.

· Failure to do so could result in personal injury.
 

REPLACEMENT
STEP 6 Raise the top

STEP7 Use a short-handle screwdriver to remove the screw holding the clip from the bulkhead to the heater box

STEP 8 Usmg a nutdriver or socket wrench, remove two screws holding the high4imit thermostat on the heater box.

STEP  9 Lift the heater box to remove it from the  bulkhead brackets.

STEP 10 Pull down on the heater box and out the ~ to remove.

STEP 11 Using a screwdriver, nutdriver or socket wrench, remove the screws holding the heat element the heater box.

STEP 12 Carefully pull the heat element out of the ater box.

STEP 13 Replace the heat element by sliding it reftilly into the heater box; do not force. Make sure heat element wires do not touch the heater box.

STEP 14 Using a screwdriver, nutdriver or socket ~eh, insert the screws holding the heat element in iheater box, and tighten.

STEP 15 Slide the heater box up into the rear of dryer.
 

STEP 16 Place the slots of the heater box onto the bulkhead brackets.
 

 

STEP 17 Replace the clip in the slot on top of the heater box.

STEP 18 Using a short-handle screwdriver, insert the screw through the clip, into the bulkhead and tighten.
 

 

STEP 19 Using a nutdriver or socket wrench, insert the two screws through the high-limit thermostat, into the heater box and tighten.
 

STEP 20 Check the thermostat wires to make sure they are connected.

STEP 21 Reconnect the heat element wires to the proper terminals as previously marked.

  

Electrical Shock Hazard

· Make sure all ground wires are properly attached.

· Make sure all wiring is not pinched or laying on sharp edges.

Failure to do so could result in personal injury or death.
STEP 22 Lower the top

STEP 23 Replace the rear service panel

STEP 24 Reconnect the electrical power supply.

STEP 25 Start the dryer and check.
 
 
 
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