uh-oh looks like we got this thing at 50 heat
but the burner is at 100 we've got a problem with this switch
hey guys welcome back to the channel so we've got a little bit of a different
scene today we're not in the garage we're in the kitchen there's a little deviation
from my normal content of computers and cars so what happened was my uh switch here on my
stove started acting up we haven't been able to control the heat on this thing for a while now
and i did some research online it looks like the infinity switch which is the piece behind
it which is the part i have here today is broken so right now it's either on or off so what we're
going to do today is replace this 45 switch which should be pretty easy i hope so i gotta
pull this thing out from the wall and unplug it so we'll go ahead and just pull this baby out
so to take off this rear panel it's pretty easy i think it's like 10 phillips screws around here and
then this whole back panel pops out and then you have access to the switch right here and i think
it has two bolts on the front so we'll go ahead and take that off now and i'll show you inside
so now that we're in here it's a pretty basic switch so they got the harnesses on
either side that kind of pull out you gotta pull the knob out of the front
over here to remove the two screws behind there to pop it out in the back and then
you replace it each one of the knobs is different on here so this one right here is an infinity one
which is the same model number as that one right there and then this one for my model is slightly
different and the one over here is different too and it's for all the different burner options
that you have up front the affinity means it just spins forever right the one right here and that
one are the same even though they have different burners and then this one right here is just high
and low and then this one's got a multi-zone so that explains why you have three different
types back here for the switches so before we get started we'll just go ahead and pull the switches
on the back here or the harness off it should just pull right out there so that one came off
oh
kind of snapped that plastic a little bit there not a big deal it's really just to protect the
edges go ahead and pick up the pieces there pull this harness back into there it is kind of
tight i don't know what's really holding it back other than just the friction from the the spades
we'll go ahead and take the screws up on the front now and get inside so next thing
we want to do is just take the switch off so you just pull this handle out
and access the two screws back here and just get your drill or your screwdriver and unscrew those
pretty simple there and then switch comes right out and then you just replace it with
the one that you got so the switch i just took out was a invincys and it was a w10411
and it's from this eight-year-old whirlpool that i have here and the replacement one i have
is an oem part it's now made by robert shaw which i think they just bought out that invincis company
it's the same exact part number this one i think the bag that it came with showed that it was
manufactured like two months ago so it's brand new it wasn't old stock or anything so just basically
just put it back in the same way that we took it off put the two screws in front just to hold it
and then replug the harness in and it's pretty straightforward and easy
so you just want to make sure that all the wires are plugged in
you know that one piece that i broke earlier which really didn't matter much it was really just
to keep that spade in there it's nice and tight so we'll go ahead and test it now to see if it
operates properly so we got this baby plugged in just gotta go ahead and put the switch back
on it only goes in one way with the little notch on there make sure it turns on it is getting warm
so my problem before was when we had no kind of control on the the heat so
now i'm going to go down to like 50 percent and we'll see if it stays at 50 percent or
so it did go down so right when it kind of heated up and
it got too hot it actually turned off so that's good so we turned it up to medium
it's heating up to medium like it's supposed to
we'll go turn it back down to low
looks like it's working it wasn't doing that before it would just stay high all the time
so i found my issue i took the switch apart and i discovered that this little chip right here which
is the potentiometer it's got a little thing right there that looks like it's burnt and it's actually
flaking off right now right there and that's what controls the temperature because once that thing
i think heats up to a certain thing it it sends current through this thing and it actually flips
up and down and makes a contactor activate and that one is burnt out right there so that's what
failed on this thing it cost me 45 to replace hey guys thanks for tuning in for this quick video on
fixing a switch on my whirlpool stove i know this is a little bit of a deviation from my normal
videos where i do car stuff and computer stuff but you know i figured this is a common problem
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