Amana Stove/Range Beeping

[BaronsMom]

I have an Amana Range, with burners - electric, not glass top. It has the digital time/timer up by the controls.

Last week it started randomly counting down the time on the timer and then the beeping alarm goes off (same one that goes off if I'm timing something I'm cooking).

Unfortunately, it also does it at night. DH was up 5 times last night (he should've just flipped the circuit breaker to the stove off but I'm sure he was sleepy and not thinking).

Fortunately for me, all I have to do is put my right ear in my pillow and can't hear high sounds out of my left ear (which I didn't know until this beeper thing happened).

I called to check on repairs and OMWORD! The part to replace it costs over $200 (with $45 labor) Since my stove is 12 years old - I'll have to probably look at getting a newer one.

anyone else have this happen? I'm hesitant to buy a stove with the digital clock/time if this is how much it costs to repair the stupid thing.

[Bearfootfarm]

http://www.repairclinic.com/Home.aspx

Maybe you can get it cheaper here

[cfabe]

Open the thing up, find the beeper on the circuit board, break it off, and then buy a $5 kitchen timer to use instead.

[gone-a-milkin]

Yep, pull the wire on that little sucker and get an egg timer.

[ostrichlady]

How funny my Amana is doing the same thing!! 2:30 last night it was going off! Thought I was having some sort of weird dream with beeps! I think I'll save for a new range though, The broiler went out 6 months ago It simply might be time for a new one.
Barb

[dragonfly1113]

the last stove I had was a Amana. Mine was glass top with all the digital buttons. When mine did that beeping it also put out a code on the digital screen. I had to kick my breaker to stop it. It cost me $240 + for a whole new digital thingy. It appears that you have to buy the whole board and not just the problem area. Thats how they make money now. Put crappy parts on it and then when they go out, make you pay an arm and a leg for the part you need and the parts you dont. Everything is like that now.
My car window cable broke, nothing wrong with the motor thingy. $300 for a new one because you cant just buy the cable. No thank you. Just put a wedge in the window please. My car is now 8 years old. And all but one window has the same problem. Imagine that.
Susie

[Cabin Fever]

Originally Posted by Wind in Her Hair

oh Cabin FEEEEEEVVVVEEEERRRR -honey -didn't we have the same issue?
chime in puhleez

Oh brother. We had a similar issue, but not the same issue. Our Jenn Aire gas range, for no apparent reason, started to beep and flash words over and over again. No amount of pushing buttons on the keypad would make it stop.

I have no idea what was causing the problem. I blamed on a computer glitch. So, I did what I do when my computer freezes up...I unplugged it and a minute later plugged it back in. Problem solved.

[Pink_Carnation]

We had a stove that beeped like this and to make it stop we would turn it off at the breaker. It didn't happen frequently but later the element broke/started arching when heating up and I had to goto the breaker to get the oven to shut off. So I would be wary of just disablling the noise.

[BaronsMom]

Got a stove update...

For the past week we've gone down in the basement and shut the stove off before going to bed or when it beeps and gets annoying.

There were a couple of days near the end, I didn't use my stove at all - and it just stayed completely off power - no elecricity/circuit shut off.

After the couple of days I didn't use the stove, I turned it back on at the circuit box and the darn thing hasn't beeped in several days - - - .

Seems to be working perfectly... no problems. Maybe it did actually reset itself. Crossing fingers and happy no more alarms going off!