Frigidaire PLES399ECD

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20210125-F5203-3003853. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire PLES399ECD. Source model text: PLES399EC. Incident: (10/2?/2020) The consumer stated that she heard a pop. She looked up and saw sparks and smoke coming from one of the Frigidaire electric range's control knobs. She ran over to the range and noticed that one of the burners was fully on and attempted to turn it off, but was unsuccessful. Hence, she initiafly panicked, and then ran to the circuit breaker box and flipped the electrical switch that is mapped to the range, which completely powered off the range.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20121028-9C97E-2147462428. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire PLES399ECD. Source model text: PLES399EC. Incident: We have a Frigidaire Range we purchased approx. 4 years ago. The Range was turned off and we had a heavy glass 8 cup measuring cup with tea sitting on the range. The range had not been used that evening. My husband and I were sitting on the outside porch when we heard a loud crashing sound. Our 11 year old son had just walked in and we thought he broke a dish. When we went in to investigate, we learned the glass measuring cup had exploded just seconds after our son passed by it. The glass blew all over the kitchen, dining room, and family room.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180508-8CE54-2147388104. Severity: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire PLES399ECD. Incident: I have a frigidaire smooth top stove, model # ples399ecd, that just turned on by itself and will not turn off. It nearly burned my house down.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20200923-B5B5A-2147369638. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Frigidaire PLES399ECD (Frigidaire stove Model PLES399ECD heating element overheating problems with stove off). Incident: Frigidaire stove heating element overheating problems with stove off, When we bought our house I purchased all new Frigidaire appliances. The stove started turning itself on and off by itself. One burner gets red hot. There are hundreds of complaints that these stoves do this. Frigidaire just sells you expensive Chinese crap replacement boards. The Frigidaire dryer was also junk with main board failures and expensive replacement parts. There is some very bad engineering on their stoves. Something that can reach 1,000 degrees on the stove top (flat glass ((ceramic?)) top needs to have switches that are at the beginning or the end of a circuit so when you switch the burner to "off" the electricity is shut off to the entire control board for that element. In this case shutting the element to off only suggests to the board that it should turn off the element. This is a bad design. If one of the IC chips has issues it is capable of turning the elements off and on even if the main control is set to off. Bad manufacturing and engineering somewhere to cut costs. I worked in the electronics field all my adult life with a degree in electronics. There is no reason a stove engineered like this should be on the American market. The pan of water was just placed there for a short time. I turned the dial to high in the middle of this video to show that the switch was still functional. I did not want to have the dammed thing heat up so hot that it might break the top glass or melt something inside the stove. see video [REDACTED]