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Looking at the wiring diagram on p.18 it appears that the bottom element doesn’t get any power until the top element thermostat has operated presumably when the temperature has been reached there.
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Changeover contacts 1 -2 will open and 1-4 will make sending power down through the lower thermostat and then the element.
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If you have an Ohmmeter, disconnect all the power from the heater and check for continuity from upper thermostat contact 4 black wire to lower thermostat contact 1, to lower heater element , through element and back on the red wire to the 2nd phase supply. See lower element power supply path in the image below.
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Changeover contacts 1 -2 will open and 1-4 will make sending power down through the lower thermostat and then the element. If you have an Ohmmeter, disconnect all the power from the heater and check for continuity from upper thermostat contact 4 black wire to lower thermostat contact 1, to lower heater element , through element and back on the red wire to the 2nd phase supply. See lower element power supply path in the image below.
Since the upper element has power you really only have to test between the two green arrow points shown in the image below. If there is no continuity between those two points then you have to find out why, if there is then it may be the upper thermostat has a problem or it is wired incorrectly.
Here’s the [https://products.geappliances.com/MarketingObjectRetrieval/Dispatcher?RequestType=PDF&Name=AP12168-7%20(GE%20Elec).pdf|owner manual] taken from this [https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-specs/GE50T6A/troubleshoot|webpage]
Looking at the wiring diagram on p.18 it appears that the bottom element doesn’t get any power until the top element thermostat has operated presumably when the temperature has been reached there.
Changeover contacts 1 -2 will open and 1-4 will make sending power down through the lower thermostat and then the element.
If you have an Ohmmeter, disconnect all the power from the heater and check for continuity from upper thermostat contact 4 black wire to lower thermostat contact 1, to lower heater element , through element and back on the red wire to the 2nd phase supply. See lower element power supply path in the image below.
Since the upper element has power you really only have to test between the two green arrow points shown in the image below. If there is no continuity between those two points then you have to find out why, if there is then it may be the upper thermostat has a problem or it is wired incorrectly.
Here’s the [https://products.geappliances.com/MarketingObjectRetrieval/Dispatcher?RequestType=PDF&Name=AP12168-7%20(GE%20Elec).pdf|owner manual] taken from this [https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-specs/GE50T6A/troubleshoot|webpage]
Looking at the wiring diagram on p.18 it appears that the bottom element doesn’t get any power until the top element thermostat has operated presumably when the temperature has been reached there.
Changeover contacts 1 -2 will open and 1-4 will make sending power down through the lower thermostat and then the element.
If you have an Ohmmeter, disconnect all the power from the heater and check for continuity from upper thermostat contact 4 black wire to lower thermostat contact 1, to lower heater element , through element and back on the red wire to the 2nd phase supply. See lower element power supply path in the image below.
Since the upper element has power you really only have to test between the two green arrow points shown in the image below. If there is no continuity between those two points then you have to find out why, if there is then it may be the upper thermostat has a problem or it is wired incorrectly.
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Here’s the [https://products.geappliances.com/MarketingObjectRetrieval/Dispatcher?RequestType=PDF&Name=AP12168-7%20(GE%20Elec).pdf|owner manual] taken from this [https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-specs/GE50T6A/troubleshoot|webpage]
Looking at the wiring diagram on p.18 it appears that the bottom element doesn’t get any power until the top element thermostat has operated presumably when the temperature has been reached there.
Changeover contacts 1 -2 will open and 1-4 will make sending power down through the lower thermostat and then the element.
If you have an Ohmmeter, disconnect all the power from the heater and check for continuity from upper thermostat contact 4 black wire to lower thermostat contact 1, to lower heater element , through element and back on the red wire to the 2nd phase supply. See lower element power supply path in the image below.
Since the upper element has power you really only have to test between the two green arrow points shown in the image below. If there is no continuity between those two points then you have to find out why, if there is then it may be the upper thermostat has a problem or it is wired incorrectly.
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