Boxer747 for Model Number GE Advantium PSB9120SF2SS Hello, I hope you can help me with this... A smell of burnt plastic started to come out of my PSB9120SF2 SS oven. We used convection cooking a lot so I thought something could be lodged in the heating element or something like that... Everything else worked great besides that smell... Suddenly, one morning we found the oven display off and the oven didn't power back on, regardless of being plugged and unplugged numerous times. I called GE and they were prompt to send a technician. They charged a pretty penny for the visit and found a molten terminal in one of the control wires. The tech spliced the cable with a new terminal and tested the microwave (not the convection feature) and the oven seemed to work fine. After a few weeks and a few convection uses, the molten plastic smell started again and the oven soon died... A couple of days later, I disconnected and connected power and the oven came back to life again! This time only once (convection again), and then died again. I do not want to call GE and have the same result and waste of $. No fuses have ever been blown. What could it be? Thank you,
Answer Hello Boxer, the same problem has reoccurred. The usual repair when this problem is found at a terminal to terminal connection is to replace both sides of the connection. On a wire harness, a new terminal can be installed but on the other side of the connection, meaning whatever the terminal is attached to would also need to be replaced. Poor contact between terminals will result in too much resistance to the amount of power flowing through the connection which causes a heat build-up and reoccurrence. Read More... Answered by AppliancePartsPros.com | Wednesday, May 20, 2020