[Jeanneeber]

I just took apart my Maytag gas dryer-it is not heating all the time. When I looked inside-I cleaned it all out first, cleaned out vent also (I read on web site this might be a problem). When I look inside and started the dryer-the ignitor glowed and gas comes up and ignites flame -then flame stops-after 30 sec. or so-ignitor again glows bight red but then goes out without igniting gas and this keeps repeating. I have a meter but its digital and all instructions on these websites keep giving instructions for analog (set at R-1) I don't see any of these settings on the digital and . The dryer also only functions like this in the
"Intelli-dry" modes (Reg and Perm Press). In the "time dry" the timer never moves and the dryer will continue to run until I manually shut it off. In the Intellidry modes (both) the cycle will end automatically-but nothing is dry due to the heat not functioning. Can anyone help me out-I'd appreciate it. I'm pretty handy and this doesn't seem too difficult to repair-just a question of WHAT to repair??
Thanks, Jeanne

[eric shubert]

If you are running the dryer with the door off then the flame is not being pull through the burner tube and tripping the roll out switch. but even so the burner will cycle back on . could be the coils on the valve are breaking down.

[Jeanneeber]

Thanks for your suggestion-I know the dryer (gas) will respond differently with the door off-but there is no other way to view the flame etc.-no little "peep" door on this dryer. I can tell the dryer was doing basically the same thing bBEFORE I took off the door because the gas meter is right in the basement and you could visually see when the gas went on and was in use and when it was not. So the behavior I am seeing is mimicking what it is doing with the door in place. I was thinking the coils also. How do you check these for continuity-remove them and then check them or can you do it with them in place and just disconected from the curcuitry? Like I said I have a digital meter-best I go out and get an analog so I can follow the directions on the web sites. Any other suggestions ?? ANYONE??

[eric shubert]

not sure what the ohm reading is on the coils, but a ohm is a ohm is a ohm. on the digital meter the low scale should be a upside down looking horse shoe with a sound wave then something like 40, that 40 ohms or 0 to 40, the next scale maybe 400, thats 400 ohms or 0 to 400 the next scale is thousands and so on. the coils if i remember are somewhere in the 0 to 400 scale

[Jeanneeber]

Here's the problem with the way you explained it-I tested both the coils. The digital is 20-200-2000K and such. One coil reads 0 the other 6Ohms. If one is bad (I'm assuming the one that reads 0-your explanation says that the range is 0-400. So is it good or is it bad if it reads 0?? I would assume any reading indicates that it has some power and the 0 is a bad coils due to these resistance readings. Am I correct?? Thanks for all your help. Only a Jersey guy would answer an Ohm Is an Ohm is an Ohm!! (I'm in NY) I meant I understood the
DIRECTIONS for using the analog and not the digital-not the Ohm thing. I was told to set the analog on R-1 Couldn't find anything like that on the digital.

[Jeanneeber]

Sorry-that Ohm setting was Rx1-that is what was missing on the digital-now I have learned that the digital is capable of getting more precise readings (and higher) and doesn't have to be recalibrated after each measurement also. Anyway-I would appreciate if you could respond to my question above. And Thanks so much for your time and patience-I appreciate them both!!

[eric shubert]

yes the one reading zero is bad the coils should come in a kit, replace both of them