Kenmore Electric Dryer Not Heating Up

I have a kenmore 200 series dryer model number 110 62332511 and the dryer keeps running and timer doesn t move.

Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.

The problem could be a bad thermal fuse a thermistor or in my case the electric heating element. Electric current flowing through the coil creates heat and the air being pulled through the chamber absorbs this heat. To determine if the heating element assembly has burned out use a multimeter to test it for continuity. The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum.

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. The element is a coil of heating wire enclosed in a metal chamber. Another possible cause for a dryer not heating up could be attributed to a faulty thermal fuse.

In this video i show you how to fix a kenmore dryer that is not heating but still runs. Troubleshooting your dryer is the hardest part of the repair. Open up your dryer s cabinet and locate its thermal fuse so that you can test it. How to test a dryer s heating element with a multi meter.

How to open a dryer cabinet. Kenmore dryer doesn t heat up 20 dollar repair learn how to easily replace the thermal fuse. When running the dryer isn t heating up also. If the element is defective then it will not heat.

Produced by scott the fix it guy with 20 years of repair e. We replaced the timer and it still does the same thing. Over time the heating element can burn out causing the dryer not to heat.