The Virtual Repairman's Appliance Help

[abnerone]

Hello...

I have a GE dryer model DDG7080SBLAA, that is 14 years old. I started noticing that it would fail to heat up intermittently in the past couple weeks. I opened the machine up and cleaned it thoroughly, hoping that would fix it. It has not.

Tonight, I ran a load on "medium heat - timer" and it ran hot for that cycle. I stopped it after about 50 minutes to check on the clothes. Since they needed a little more time, I restarted the machine, but now the igniter does not glow orange during this start up. (I am looking down the now open top of the machine.) I tried it 5-6 times, no glow. Then I switched it over to the other cycle called "high heat" which uses a dryness sensor I believe. Now the igniter does glow orange and ignition and flame start.

So to prove the cause and effect, I stop it, and switch back to medium heat and it repeatedly fails to glow orange. I switch it back to high heat and it glows orange and the flames ignite.

It might be true that the medium heat cycle does not ignite, once the dryer is already hot, but that the high heat cycle will ignite regardless.
Any ideas?

My best guess is that it is the "low cycle operating cycling thermostat", which I see as mfg part WE4X819.

It is so much appreciated.
John

[Virtual Repairman]

I agree wholeheartedly about the low-temp thermostat! You can always find the darn thing and test it with your OHM meter.