Cooker keeps blowing fuse

[TheArchitect]

My many year old cooker (Hotpoint GW62) has developed a problem where it keeps blowing the fuse (3A). Note the main fuse box doesn't trip, it's just the fuse in the plug that pops as soon as I plug it in. I've just gone through four brand new fuses.

It's a gas cooker with gas oven and grill. Any thoughts on what could be causing this? I've done some interwebbing but most similar issues are occurring on electric cookers that use heating elements.

Help, advise or solution appreciated.


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[noobRider]

Sparky things that light the burners shorting out?
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[P.addy]

Do you require the electric for a gas cooker?!

3A seems low. Even my coffee maker is 13amp it chews 5A to pieces in seconds.

[drzsta]

[ferrisio]

[TheArchitect]

Sorry for late reply.

Yes, the power is just for the igniter and oven light.

The fuse originally blew and I replaced it with another 3A. That lasted about a week and now it blows fuses as soon as I plug it in. Literally can hear the pop as soon as the switch on the socket is flicked on.

Nothing has changed on the cooker as far as I can tell.
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[TheArchitect]

[monkeybiker]

Do you need to plug it in for the cooker to work?

Got to be a short somewhere but could you get a handheld sparky thing and just leave it unplugged?

[TheArchitect]

[P.addy]

Grab a clicky spark thing from pound land. I've been doing that to my mums cooker since I was like 5

[grr666]

I'd start by renewing the whole cable into the hob. It's likely the cable may have suffered some internal
heat damage especially being in close proximity to 2 nearby heat sources over time. Alternatively I'd
bet you have water earthing out the ignition spark points. Has something boiled over recently?
Or has it been VERY thoroughly cleaned recently. I was called out to a hob in a womans house where the
same fault was occurring only it was tripping the RCD circuit breaker at the fuseboard rather than the one
in its 3 PIN PLUG TOP (@Stinkwheel). Anyway it turned out she had cleaned it to bejeezus and back and
gotten the internal wiring wet, a blast with my heat gun to dry it out and after leaving it to dry out fully over
night I plugged it back in next day and voila. No fault.
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[Andy_Pagin]

[MCN]

How many fecking cooker threads do you need?



The wires to the igniter/sparker doofur may have shorted. Wear and tear can chaff through the fibreglass sheaths. A washing machine near the cooker can vibrate the floor enough to provide movement for this. The wires should be routed and clipped into place to avoid sharp edges but who knows what effect time has had on it.

May be a bad flex from 220 outlet to cooker.

Have you still got the manual for the pig?

edit

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/70600/Hotpoint-6-Dog.html?page=31#manual
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[Dave70]

Seriously CaNsA, neg rating posts I made over three years ago.

Did you get butthurt because I negged your repetitive gif after every MCN as boring? Because tbh, it is boring.

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[Dave70]

Not bawwing, just pulling you up over it.

You're the one whose out to revenge by negging three year old posts. That would appear to show who's really butthurt.
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[CaNsA]

So boring you had to post about it?

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To be honest 'Cansa' you do seem to do things just to get a rise out of people. Not as bad as some of the other forum wankers (who seem to have been banned?), but you do sometimes do it. And giving negative karma to really old posts shows a way more childish attitude, and mega butthurt.

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[CaNsA]

Have I got this right...?

Dave70 is pissed because I dished back some karma at him and I am posting pics in reply to some of MCN's asinine posts.

'Lord Percy' is pissed and trying to start a bandwagon because I wouldn't agree with him in the "washing machine drama" thread.

Yeah, I think I've got it right.

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