Kenmore Electric Dryer Not Heating Up

If your dryer s fuse is blown you will have to replace it.

Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.

If your kenmore elite dryer runs but does not heat then there are a series of troubleshooting steps you can do yourself to repair your dryer. How to test a dryer s heating element with a multi meter. Produced by scott the fix it guy with 20 years of repair e. The element is a coil of heating wire enclosed in a metal chamber.

Open up your dryer s cabinet and locate its thermal fuse so that you can test it. Troubleshooting your dryer is the hardest part of the repair. Once a dryer s thermal fuse has blown it is no longer of any use. The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum.

The problem could be a bad thermal fuse a thermistor or in my case the electric heating element. Kenmore dryer doesn t heat up 20 dollar repair learn how to easily replace the thermal fuse. If the heating element assembly does not have continuity replace it. To determine if the heating element assembly has burned out use a multimeter to test it for continuity.

We replaced the timer and it still does the same thing. I have a kenmore 200 series dryer model number 110 62332511 and the dryer keeps running and timer doesn t move. Electric current flowing through the coil creates heat and the air being pulled through the chamber absorbs this heat. We also changed the heating element and it not the problem.

In this video i show you how to fix a kenmore dryer that is not heating but still runs. If the element is defective then it will not heat. When running the dryer isn t heating up also.