Kenmore 790.4380* Cooktop User Manual


 
Cooktop Control Pads
Using the Touch Control
Be sure that your finger is placed in the center of the touch
pad. If the finger is not placed on the center of a pad, the
cooktop may not respond to the selection made.
Lightly contact the pad with the fiat part of your entire
fingertip. Do not just use the narrow end of your fingertip.
Cooktop Power Pad
The Cooktop POWER key pad activates the entire Cooktop.
To power the cooktop, touch and hold the POWER key pad
for 2 seconds. A beep wiii sound and the Power LED will glow
(Fig. 11). The cooktop wiii be in a ready mode for 10 seconds.
If no other key pads are touched the Cooktop Main POWER
will turn OFF automatically. To turn the Main Power OFF
touch and hold the Main POWER key pad for 1 second. A
beep wiii sound and the Power LED wiii turn OFF (Fig. 10).
Fig. 10 Fig. 11
Controls Lock Pad
This feature allows the cooktop to be locked only when the
cooktop is switched to OFF. Touch and hold the LOCI( key
pad for 3 seconds. A beep will sound and the Loci< LED will
glow (Fig. 13). Once locked, no other displays wiii glow and
no Cooking Zones wiii activate. To turn the Controls Loci<
OFF, touch and hold the LOCI( key pad for 3 seconds. A
beep will sound, the Loci< LED wiii turn OFF (Fig. 12) and the
cooktop may be used normally.
Fig. 12 Fig. 13
Error Codes Display Message
The error code will display in the zone that has the error. The
error will flash through the code C, X, X (Example Fig. 14)
where the X is the number of the code. If the zone has been
on and the zone is hot enough to display H [Example Fig.
15) and you have an error then you will see C, X, X, H. For
service call I=800=4=MY=HOME®.
Fig. 14
Cooking Zone On/Off Pad
Each of the Cooking Zones have separate ON/OFF key
pads. Once the Main Power key pad has been touched
to activate the cooktop, touch the corresponding Cooking
Zone ON/OFF key pad once to activate the Cooking Zone
needed. "-" will appear in the Alpha-Numeric display and
the cooking zone ON/OFF LED will glow [Fig. 17). If the
corresponding UP/DOWN Arrow key pad is not touched
within 10 seconds, the request to turn the Cooking Zone ON
will cancel and the Cooktop will go back to ready mode. To
turn OFF a Cooking Zone, touch the Cooking Zone ON/OFF
key pad once. The Cooking Zone LED will turn OFF {Fig. 16).
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Fig. 16 Fig. 17
Power Level Settings
The Cooking Zones have separate Power Level Alpha-
Numeric displays. Once active, the Cooking Zones will
provide 15 Power Levels to choose from. These include 1(Fig.
18), 2, 2, 3, 3., % LI.,S, 5., 6, E. (Fig. 19), 7, 8, 9, ,o. Half power
levels [available between 2 and "/power level) are indicated
by lighting the display decimal point (Fig. 19). The highest
setting of P or "Power Boost" provides approximately 139%
power for 10 minutes (Fig. 20). After 10 minutes, the power
level drops to 9. Each key pad touch (or just holding down
the Power Level key pad) will scroll through all the available
power levels for any Cooking Zone quickly.
Fig. 18 Fig. 19 Fig. 20
Residual Heat Message
Once any Cooking Zone has been used for cooking and
turned OFF, and if the cooktop surface temperature on any
of the Cooking Zones is still too HOT, H (Fig. 21) will appear
in the Alpha-Numeric display for the affected Cooking
Zone. The H will continue to display if the temperature is still
too HOT.
The Cooking Zones may
appear to be cool while turned ON and after
they have been turned OFF. But the glass
surface may be HOT from residual heat
transferred from the cookware and burns may Fig. 21
occur if surface is touched.
Fig. 15
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