Kenmore Electric Dryer Not Heating Up

If the element is defective then it will not heat.

Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.

When running the dryer isn t heating up also. How to open a dryer cabinet. To determine if the heating element assembly has burned out use a multimeter to test it for continuity. If the heating element assembly does not have continuity replace it.

Once a dryer s thermal fuse has blown it is no longer of any use. Open up your dryer s cabinet and locate its thermal fuse so that you can test it. I have a kenmore 200 series dryer model number 110 62332511 and the dryer keeps running and timer doesn t move. Another possible cause for a dryer not heating up could be attributed to a faulty thermal fuse.

We also changed the heating element and it not the problem. The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum. We replaced the timer and it still does the same thing. Electric current flowing through the coil creates heat and the air being pulled through the chamber absorbs this heat.

How to test a dryer s heating element with a multi meter. The element is a coil of heating wire enclosed in a metal chamber. If your dryer s fuse is blown you will have to replace it. The problem could be a bad thermal fuse a thermistor or in my case the electric heating element.

Troubleshooting your dryer is the hardest part of the repair. 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. Produced by scott the fix it guy with 20 years of repair e.