How to unlock frigidaire oven door after self clean
Frigidaire PLES389ECE Oven Door Locked
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sella and my wife and i obtained this
Frigidaire
slide in professional
dole stove about five years ago and this
Thanksgiving just about a month and a
half ago we had an experience with it in
which the oven door locked and I spent
weeks researching on the Internet to try
and find how to fix the stove this video
is intended to give you insight that I
wished I had when the event first
happened the problem took place when the
self-cleaning mode was pushed on the
oven I don't recommend that you do that
at some point in time this message
showed up on the digital readout little
screen that the oven was locked the
little lock insignia and the message
that the oven was locked I did all the
things that I found on the internet that
they suggested you can do turning the
power off unplugging it leaving it off
for long periods of time specific
sequences of buttons to push I tried all
the things that I found with a lot of
looking and none of them seemed to work
at all most of the YouTube videos
suggested the simple way to unlock it is
just to pull the stove out and you'll
find the locking mechanism and motor on
the back of the stove of which on this
particular model that's not the case
that's not where it's found I do want
you to understand that this diagram that
I have given is the result of really
several weeks of in the evenings after I
got home of figuring out what what in
the world was going on so showing you
this is I want you to know the ultimate
problem turned out to be a thermal
protective switch or an oven thermal
safety switch that was located on the
back of the stove there is a second one
that's in the very front of the stove
and all of these are in one circuit that
connect together that is the oven
thermal switch and then moving up on the
bottom right is the oven temperature
probe they're connected together and
then the oven
lock or unlock mechanism that's actually
underneath the glass top and you have to
remove the top to get to that there is a
second thermal safety switch in the
front and there is a door lock safety
switch that lets you know whether the
door is closed or not all of these items
are connected together in one circuit as
I said in the end the problem turned out
to be the oven thermal safety switch on
the back of the oven which triggered
when the heat the excessive heat of the
oven clean cycle had been set in motion
it's not uncommon for many of them the
oven temperature probe goes out under
the heat of the self-cleaning mode in
this instance had I known everything I
could have just pulled the oven out
pushed the little reset button on the
thermal safety switch on the back of the
stove and everything would have been
fine
I think the oven lock motor would have
completed its cycle and I would have
been able to open it it would have been
fixed for free and would have taken
about five minutes at the most
unfortunately I did not understand all
those things so I went through the
process of testing everything even
replacing the motor of the locking motor
that's underneath the glass top on the
top of the stove there are several
excellent videos that explain how to
remove the glass top
it's just simple a matter of time and
screws sheet metal screws that you have
to remove and just keep track of
everything and which screws came from
which area and you'll be able to take it
apart quite easily put it back together
quite easily the I did replace the oven
probe the temperature probe from the
back of the oven that cost under 20
bucks it didn't need to be replaced
and I did replace the lock/unlock motor
assembly that's about set
bucks from Amazon yeah I don't think it
really needed to be played replaced but
I purchased it and when I eventually
discovered by following the wires
incredibly carefully that there was a
second thermal protective switch on the
back of the oven when I push that
because the little black center part had
popped out showing that the safety
switch had had worked and it shut down
the oven that was the real cause so my
recommendation to you is if you have
these start with the thermal safety
switch in the very back of the oven and
you can repair the problem for free
unless the temperatures got high enough
that it blew the temperature probe that
is in the back and it's a very simple
replacement fix the motor the
lock/unlock motor is more complicated is
more time consuming but it's a very
doable job for a reasonably skilled home
handyman I hope this has helped you and
I hope you stay away from the the
cleaning cycle the self-cleaning cycle
of this particular line of stoves as the
temperatures get too hot and result in
either blown safety switches or the
thermal probe gets blown in the high
temperatures thank you for watching this
video I hope it helped you
