Cooling Fan for Electronics
Submitted by KaJaPic -
3/31/2020
I purchased this oven as part of a kitchen remodel, replacing my 30 year old, but still working GE Double Oven. My old oven served my well and I needed to purchase an oven that fit into my existing cabinet cutout. So, I went with this GE Double Wall Oven and their "Guaranteed to Fit" promise. It is beautiful and does look great installed in the same cabinet as my previous oven. (The installers only had to shave away about 1/4" of cabinet width to make the new oven fit into the old cutout.)
However, truthfully, I have not used my new oven much. First, I am single and just haven't been baking that much lately. Secondly, I HATE the droning, too loud (for me) fan that keeps the digital electronics from over heating. It comes on immediately when you turn on the oven, runs during the whole baking time and then stays on long after the oven is turned off, only stopping when the oven has cooled down to some pre-determined temperature. (Note: This is not the fan for the convection feature.) This fan runs for both the upper and the lower oven. My salesman said that the acceptable noise level would be equal to the sound level of a vent fan over a cooktop when set to the #1 position. (I think it sounds more like a level #2 or #3.) That may be, but I had no idea that today's ovens came with this annoying, droning sound feature which I can hear throughout my large, one room combination kitchen/breakfast nook/family room. I saw nothing about this in any reviews I read. Hopefully, I'll learn to ignore it / not hear it. As of right now, I dread the thought of baking batches of cookies or baking a roast for 2-3 hours and having the sound of that fan running in the background the whole time. Therefore, I have not been using my very expensive oven. Very Sad!!!
Others have complained about the clicking sound the oven makes to maintain the right temperature. This is minor, in my opinion, and does not bother me.
Others have also complained about the all too quiet timer buzzer. This is true. It is ridiculous!! I can barely hear it from across the room, and would never hear it from the other end of the house. And no, there is no way to adjust / increase the buzzer sound, a fact the GE even admits to. (I think my neighbors could hear the buzzer on my old oven, it was so annoyingly loud!!) So yes, I, too, will have to set some other timer if I leave the kitchen. Also annoying. One would think that GE would have fixed this issue by now with all of the complaints that they get.
Originally posted on www.ge.com
No, I do not recommend this product
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