Sigh, it’s been one of those mornings folks. Long whiny story I’ll spare you from, but it ended with me coming back to the studio to find a fail message on my kiln….maybe the kiln was just trying to sympathize with me today….
Regardless, now I need to problem solve. The firing went fine, it fired off last night, I stopped the program once it said complete so that I could see the temperature to know when I could open it. All was good, 500 and some degress left, I went to bed. So what transpired over night? I can’t get the fail message to clear and there is no error code to look up. So what is it then? Broken thermocouple. I guess too many firings, too much work. Overloading my wee kiln. Oh well. It’s not like i’m in the midst of getting a huge wholesale order done or something…..oh wait, I am!!!
I hope everyone else’s day transpires without any FAILS.
: )
Carole,
Our skutt had the same Fail message over the weekend. Our manual said "fail" means it needs a new thermocouple. Changed it out today and voila it is perfect!
Hope you had the same luck.
Michelle
St. Louis, MO
Make sure you look at all of the connections for char marks. Also clean the prongs on the plug. I had my plug completely melt down earlier this year and destroy the external controller housing due to the internal connection on the plug overheating and self destructing. It failed where the wire screws into the back of the prong. Most likely not your issue but something to be aware of. A little oxidation creates resistance which creates heat which creates oxidation and it is a downward spiral from there.