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brock_lee t1_ixuuvbw wrote

Sometimes if I cook bacon and let it go a little too long, some kind of heat overload sensor trips and it stops heating. For a while. You can even hear it's different. Everything "works" but there's less of a hum. Maybe 20 minutes later, the fuse/breaker resets and all is well. You might try seeing if you can find a schematic and if there's a heat sensor overload fuse that does not automatically reset and maybe got blown during the outage.

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nrgins t1_ixuv9ls wrote

Sounds good. I'll give it a try a bit later. This actually happens with my space heater. If something gets in front of it, it overheats and turns off and won't turn back on. I've almost thrown it away twice because of this, because even after waiting a while, it still didn't work. But I found if I unplug it, and then leave it unplugged for a while, then it works again. So I'll try that. Thanks!!

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Herpes-in-space t1_ixuw1eq wrote

You'll be looking for an electrical fuse rather than a thermal fuse in my opinion, given the failure follows a power outage.

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