If you find on your ceramic hob that when you turn your ring on, it is going on full blast and it's not actually having its temperature regulated, it is very likely that there is an issue with the control board or regulator and you need to replace it. Start by testing the outer element, and what you are looking for is a reading of less than 100 ohms for a working element. As with any electrical items, it’s particularly important to study the quality of a product before you buy it. This is especially important for Hobs. But when we’re buying online, what can be done to get an idea of a product’s quality? Next up we thought it would be useful to narrow down our search a bit more and only look at Hobs made by Logik. We managed to find 2 options at Currys.

We searched for all of the Hobs that we could find at Currys. In total we found 160 different products available. That leads us nicely into price, where we’re going to spend some time looking at the price of LOGIK LCHOBTC16 Electric Ceramic Hob and seeing how that compares to other Hobs and also looking at the sort of price you can expect to pay for products from Logik. The temperature is controlled in these rings through the control board or regulatorand this cycles these elements on and off to produce the required temperature. It might be the case that your hob doesn't actually use a control board, as it could actually use a regulator (variable switch)to cycle the power on and off. This type of hob can also use a variable switch to cycle the power on and off on a ring, and again if you are finding that when you turn the switch on the element is just going on full blast and you should replace the switch.

My Hob Is Not Receiving Any Power?

If you're finding that when you turn it on it's not reaching the right temperature, you can test the element. Our first area to study is normally the features. We’ve given a full list of features for LOGIK LCHOBTC16 Electric Ceramic Hob above. This should give you a good idea of how good the product is in terms of features and functionality. If one of the areas on the ring isn't heating up, you can actually examine the wire for any breakages or damage - and you can also test the element by using a multimeter on a resistance setting. Setting yourself a budget will really help you to narrow down your search. It can also help you to avoid the slippery slope of buying a really expensive product that perhaps had advanced specifications that you didn’t need or couldn’t actually afford.

An element is quite simple, as it's essentially a resistive wire which has current passed through it and the resistance causes it to get hot - which is obviously what cooks the food. As you can see here there are four rings inside the ceramic hob, with two two rings containing two elements, and then the other two both have a single element. Induction hobs work quite differently to the other two types of hob as they use electromagnetic coils. The electromagnetic coils actually only heat any ferrous metal. For the element we are testing now in this video, we are getting a reading of about 38 ohms and on the inner element about 72 ohms - so that shows that both those elements are working okay. It’s also important to have a good idea of your expectations in terms of quality too. You may not actually be looking for the best quality product if your main goal is to get cheap Hobs. So spend some time considering what’s important to you and think about the areas that you’d be happy to compromise or not.

Using a multimeter, you are looking for any reading is between 50 and 300 ohms across those elements, so any reading significantly outside of that range would indicate the presence of a fault and the ring will need to be replaced. You’re also going to want to know how durable the product is, so here we’d advise taking a look at the materials that the Hobs are made from. Because they do work quite differently and are more complicated, it can be difficult to diagnose and fix an induction hob. For that reason, you may prefer to use a fixed price repairs service, such as RepairCare. This particular hob shown at this part of the video actually uses a six position switchto control each ring. Now the fact that it's got six positions means that each ring is going to contain three elements. The position that you set the switch at will determine how many of those elements are turned on to produce the relevant heat. In the Hobs category, 149 products cost more than LOGIK LCHOBTC16 Electric Ceramic Hob and 10 cost less. How much are Logik Hobs?