[Topfueltodd]

Hello

Thanks in advance for the help

I went to my box to turn off my air conditioner breaker but accidentally turned off my electric stove breaker while my wife was cooking. I turned it back on and now the stove doesnt work. The digital read out works some but the burners and oven do not. I checked the outlet with a multimeter and half is showing 120 volts and the other half nothing. I'm curious if I burned out the outlet or the breaker. The breaker is a 50/50 double breaker. Is it possible that half of the breaker is working and the other half is not and that is why the digital read is getting some power but not enough to run the stove and burners.

Thanks for the help

 

[AllanJ]

Yes it is possible that half of the breaker is shot.

When that happens most of the stove won't work because it needs all 240 volts to do anything with the oven and burners, connected hot to hot without using the neutral.

A few mostly older models of electric stoves with click stop burner knobs (low, mediuim, high) may heat up their burners on some of the lower settings using 120 volts, one hot leg to neutral.

Only things like the timer and oven light would work with 120 volts provided that the side of the line to which those components were connected was still live.
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[rjniles]

Recycle the breaker several times.

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[Wiredindallas]

Throw the breaker off very firmly, then on firmly being sure to push on both handles perhaps using 2 fingers.

 

[NCmountainCabin]

yep, you've lost 'some' of your power - this happens sometimes with us owners of 50amp 240v motorhome and RVs - if the Shore Power pedestal doesn't have both 'legs' of power working, usually caused by a weak or older breaker, or loose wire from one of the sides, the motorhome will have 'some' things that work, and 'some' that don't - very frustrating to 'figure out'... but it does happen.

 

[roughneck]

When testing these types of problems make sure to test across the phases, not each one to ground.
One side of the breaker may not have closed. Or the breaker has failed.
Turn the breaker off and then on. If the issues remain you’ll probably going to have to replace the breaker.

 

[roughneck]

yep, you've lost 'some' of your power - this happens sometimes with us owners of 50amp 240v motorhome and RVs - if the Shore Power pedestal doesn't have both 'legs' of power working, usually caused by a weak or older breaker, or loose wire from one of the sides, the motorhome will have 'some' things that work, and 'some' that don't - very frustrating to 'figure out'... but it does happen.

I actually just finished putting in my 50 amp shore power outlet at the house for our RV.
Only been on my to do list for a year and a half.