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Lincoln 1301 continues to heat after power off
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Did this problem just occur recently?
Before you rewire anything, think about it, did this work in the past?
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I recently purchased it used. It’s never worked correctly while I’ve owned it.
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Ah how I hate how these topics scroll down in subcategories everywhere.
Scott! Can we fix that? Just make every post succeed the next so you just scroll to the bottom for the latest? It’s so confusing having to read in between replies to see what the last guy said.
Okay, bedtime, it’s a good thing, lol.
Good to know, so now we know, 240V Is not incorrect, you have 2 hot legs coming in so it’s single phase 220/240 the only thing that would act up with messed up voltage would be your element but it’s working when fed directly, we know that.
Now, it’s very, very easy to get caught in the “OH! This is wrong, gotta fix that, OH! this isn’t wired right, gotta fix that” type loop and then you start blowing stuff up, I’ve done it.
We need to find what’s broken, test every compoent like what’s being recommended using the manual, if you verify EVERY component is working properly THEN we can talk about the wiring being a problem.
Swapping wires around thinking “it goes there” can blow stuff up faster than an 8 year old with a water gun in an electronics store.
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I agree the reply hierarchy needs to be fixed it’s very frustrating. I’ll check each component and check back here before messing with any of the wires. Thanks to everyone for the help!
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great.
If you need help on how to test components, ask away, assume nothing.
Someone once told me “You can’t have checked everything and found nothing” or something like that, I remind myself of that a lot.
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I didnt go through the wall of responses, but did you check to see if your switch to turn the machine off actually works?
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I now went through “the wall” and it was stated earlier.
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Also you mentioned it just continues to go up, the thermostat also might have failed which wouldn’t allow the machine to know it has reached the temp you set it to.
These are the things I would check first before getting into taking the thing apart to “look deeper”
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If I’m following the thread correctly, now that you’ve changed the heat relay, and everything is wired correctly, the relay isn’t pulling in to energize the element.Is the fan running and if so , is the pressure switch closing? That looks to be the circuit… etc, pressure switch, heat relay. if the relay won’t pull in, problem should be in one of those.
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Oh… and also the high limit. I would almost bet that if you had a melted relay… your high limit cooked.
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