Inherited this problem so not sure when it started. Oven light had been removed and was sitting on the stovetop.
Stovetop and all controls appear to work. The oven does not heat.
Put the bulb back in and replaced the cover in the oven but the oven still doesn't work. Does the oven light have to work in order for the oven to work.
BIL had an oven not working and it was a control board but this thing is old enough and the control board expensive enough that I'm not going to risk that option. I'll buy new instead.
But if a light bulb could fix it I'll try that.

Bulb has nothing to do with it.

Define NOT working - It could be a bad heating element and NOT the Control Board. The heating element MUCH less expensive and should be easy to replace.

Should be able to research how to unplug or remove the heating element and measure its resistance with an ohmmeter. That’ll check whether it’s the element or something else.

Yeah, this thing is 15 years old. It's actually at my mom's Florida place.
I'm just visiting and don't have any tools with me. All the local Appliance Repair shops have horrible reviews (not in the swamp, but not far removed}. Anyway, I'm pretty much in the "Replace it" camp.
BIL was like, mine was the control board and it's not a bad job. But, if it's not the control board we are out another $200+ bucks and the stove is still a 15 YO POS that isn't working.

Does the broiler work? If not does the range outlet have from 220 to 240 vac? If no, bad breaker/wiring. If yes, then check range cord connections to stove. If ok, then may be time for range replacement unless you want to do more troubleshooting.

I'd start with a visual inspection of the heating element(s). I've never had one fail where there wasn't some visual indication on the element that it had failed.

You say the oven 'does not heat', but that the controls appear to work. If you set it to Bake, what happens? Does it simply not heat up? Any indications on the control panel? Did you try setting it to broil? What happens then?

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
I'd start with a visual inspection of the heating element(s). I've never had one fail where there wasn't some visual indication on the element that it had failed.

You say the oven 'does not heat', but that the controls appear to work. If you set it to Bake, what happens? Does it simply not heat up? Any indications on the control panel? Did you try setting it to broil? What happens then?

Yes, it does not heat. Yes, I did try broil and that also doesn't work. Control panel shows it working fine. Heating elements appear undamaged.
My suspecion is that an electrical surge took out the control board. My sister and BIL did NOT follow the checklist when they shut things down for the season last May.

If the surface units work and the bake and broil do not, I would suspect a failed double line break relay. If you post the model number(what you have now is a part number) I can look up the wiring diagram to be a bit more confident that’s the issue

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W10432689A

After I got home and was able to look it up, that is the number of the tech sheet for your range. I would still need the model to look up any parts. However, with that information, I do see that this is a double line break model.

The differential in the diagnosis is if the surface units work and neither the bake or broil features do. Bake and broil have separate relays and broil has a high limit thermal fuse. If neither bake or broil work, the common in their circuits is the double line break relay which is on the oven control. I would not blame this failure on any form of power surge or other outside influence. It is simply the failure of the relay on the oven control from closing.

The repair is to replace of have rebuilt the oven control.

I hope that helps.

Thanks very much Brad. That did clear things up for me completely.
Sorry for the delay in my response, I have been drug a couple different directions the last few days.

Glad it was helpful.

You can send your control to Corecentric and for a nominal fee, they will rebuild it.

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:
Glad it was helpful.

You can send your control to Corecentric and for a nominal fee, they will rebuild it.

And just like that I learn something new today.
I honestly had no idea that there were rebuilding services for this type of repair. I'll definitely try to keep that in mind going forward.
Thanks again for the assist.