Bama-Rick
Senior Cook
I want to know if this has happened to anyone else and the outcome.. I've had my instant pot for about 6 months and love it however yesterday I was sautéing some onions in it after five minutes or so I hear a loud click and the instant pot goes dead. No lights, no nothing. After it cooled down unplugged for 20 minutes or so the themofuse reset, and the IP worked again..
After a bit of internet searching, I found these devices are protected by a themofuse, a circuit breaker that trips if it gets too hot. I found these fuses are sold on Amazon for $4 a pair and ordered a couple. So if it happens again, I'll replace the "faulty" part if I can figure out how to remove the tamperproof screws to fix the bottom cover to the pot. Replacement of the fuse itself looks pretty straight forward, sans the tamperproof screws.
My question is has this type of thing happen to any of you?
What was the outcome?
Did our pot have a long happy live after it cooled down, and the fuse reset its self or did this become an ongoing problem? (the pot shutting itself down).
After a bit of internet searching, I found these devices are protected by a themofuse, a circuit breaker that trips if it gets too hot. I found these fuses are sold on Amazon for $4 a pair and ordered a couple. So if it happens again, I'll replace the "faulty" part if I can figure out how to remove the tamperproof screws to fix the bottom cover to the pot. Replacement of the fuse itself looks pretty straight forward, sans the tamperproof screws.
My question is has this type of thing happen to any of you?
What was the outcome?
Did our pot have a long happy live after it cooled down, and the fuse reset its self or did this become an ongoing problem? (the pot shutting itself down).