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GE Gas Dryer GTD42GASJ3WW Stopped Heating


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blueliner
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My gas dryer stopped working today.  The drum spins but there's no heat.  The vent is clear.  I checked the igniter and it isn't glowing.  I tested the igniter and have 68 ohms, from everything I've seen, that should be good.  I tested the coils and I have 1300 ohms on both coils.  I've tested everything...hi-limit, safety, control inlet, drum outlet and the flame detector.  All of the switches show continuity, along with the flame detector.  The control inlet and drum outlet both have 9000 ohms, just like the schematic shows.  I'm stumped!  Is it possible the igniter is still bad even though it's showing 68 ohms?

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Have you checked the heat selection switch? That chart is at the bottom of your paper.... you can also check the timer contacts A-B..... if everything else tests good, i would run the dryer without the drum and check for ac voltage to the ignitor. If it's getting 120 but not glowing, then it's a bad igniter. If you don't get 120, then you have to look up stream.  

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16 hours ago, Econo Appliance said:

Have you checked the heat selection switch? That chart is at the bottom of your paper.... you can also check the timer contacts A-B..... if everything else tests good, i would run the dryer without the drum and check for ac voltage to the ignitor. If it's getting 120 but not glowing, then it's a bad igniter. If you don't get 120, then you have to look up stream.  

Sorry, I just saw your response today, my notifications were being sent to an old email.  No, I didn't check the heat selection switch.  I will do that and the igniter like you suggested and get back.  Thank you!

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So, just to follow up and close this out.  I checked for 120 volts at the igniter and had none.  As Econo Appliance suggested, I rotated the temperature selection switch to see if that changed my voltage readings.  Bingo!  Apparently when my wife changed the temp to cotton, which is all the way to the left, she rotated it a bit too far, which essentially turned it off.  There is no off setting and there is no detent to prevent the knob from being turned too far, but turning it too far to the left is not what you want to do.  Thanks to Econo Appliance, my dryer is fixed even though it was never broke, and all for $0!

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