How To Remove Control Panel On Ge Profile Oven

All is well in the kitchen with a working oven. When the oven starts showing error codes, or even goes completely expressionless, and so it can be a struggle to put a decent repast on the table.

If you've run into these symptoms, so you may have done some troubleshooting and determined that the electronic control board (aka electronic range control - ERC) needs to exist replaced or repaired. That sounds simple enough provided you can get the board out of the oven. Otherwise, you might take to call an appliance technician to come remove it for yous.

In this article, we provide an illustrated instance of a v-10 minute operation for extracting the board so you don't have to pay the $forty-$100 service fee for a tech to do the aforementioned thing.

This post specifically shows a common Chiliad.Due east. wall oven/microwave combo unit, only a wide diversity of brand proper name appliances (Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Kenmore, JennAir, etc...) are configured very similarly.

1. Turn off ability to the apparatus

Y'all're going to expose wiring connections that supply up to 240VAC - lethal! Turn off the breaker for the oven to avoid any tragedy.

How to remove a control board - breaker box

ii. Open the door and remove the mounting screws

Open up the door and look at the inner trim on both sides. Typically, in that location are two screws on each side that are belongings the oven in place against its cutout in the wall. These forest screws can be tight - you may desire a power drill to remove them. Be sure not to strip the screw heads.

How to remove a control board from a built-in wall oven - undo screws

iii. Slide the unit out from the wall

Take hold of onto the oven chassis and wiggle it out from the wall. You simply need to motion it out a few inches, until yous tin see screw heads on the outer trim.

How to remove a control board from a built-in wall oven - slide the unit out form the wall step one

4. Remove the side trim and panel screws

Take the outer trim off past removing the screws. There may also be some screws running along the bottom of the control console - remove these as well.

How to remove a control board from a built-in wall oven - Remove the side trim and panel screws

five. Drop down the control panel

Now, you lot should be able to loosen the control panel from the oven and hinge information technology down. Be careful non to let it completely succumb to gravity so information technology doesn't yank on the wiring or driblet down to the floor.

How to remove a control board from a built-in wall oven - Drop down the control panel

6. Document the wiring connections

Once the control console is downwardly, you'll see the command board mounted on the backside of the panel. In that location will be a lot of wiring connections to the board. We strongly recommend you document how everything is connected and so you can be sure to install the lath correctly after repair. Some adept methods include:

Have pictures of the wiring
Flag each wire with a piece of record and its ain number/alphabetic character
Sketch out a diagram of where each wire goes

7. Disconnect the wiring and remove the control lath from the panel

Pull the wires off their terminals on the board. Sometimes the wiring connectors can be pretty tight. Consider using needle-nose pliers to grab a hold of the spade terminal on the stop of wire. Or, yous tin can use a small flathead screwdriver to pry the wires away from the lath.

*** The thin "tape-like" ribbon cablevision is delicate! If this gets damaged, yous will accept to replace the control panel/keypad. Gently squeeze the tabs on the connector where the ribbon cable is inserted and elevator the cable abroad from the board.Avoid creasing the cable.

8. Package and ship the lath in for repair

These control boards tend to have fragile glass displays which cannot be replaced anymore. Make certain to supply aplenty cushioning around the control board when packaging information technology in a box for shipping. Use chimera wrap, styrofoam, newspaper, etc.

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nine. Leave ability to the unit off until the board is returned

Now that there are a bunch of loose wires dangling in the appliance control cabinet, it would be wise to exit the power off until they can be safely secured back on the control lath. If you lot actually need to turn that billow back on, wrap each loose wire stop with enough of electric tape to make sure no loftier voltage terminals curt to each other or the oven chassis.