The short answer
The reading E24 on this oven names the gas sensor circuit. Read the table for the documented wording, then work down the ranked causes rather than across them. Do not keep using it: this one is a same-day call.
The documented code and its meaning
Reference| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| E24 | The oven reached an overheat condition of 500F (260C). There may a problem with the Thermal Sensor, the Gas Sensor, the Appliance Control Board, or the associated wiring. |
What you actually observe
- The burner will not light, or lights and goes out — The control has refused part of the burner management chain.
- The oven runs normally on any function that needs no gas — Which narrows the fault to the gas side and nothing else.
- The code appears as soon as heat is called for — It is reported at the moment the circuit is consulted.
- NEAR MISS — no display and no response at all — That is an electrical supply question first.
Causes, most likely first on this oven
- The sensor or its circuit reporting outside the expected band — The control refuses a reading it cannot trust rather than running the burner on a doubtful signal, which is the safe direction.
- A slack or heat-damaged connector on the sensor lead — That lead runs close to the burner compartment, so its plug sees more heat than anything else in the circuit.
- Wiring damage between the sensor and the control — A conductor grounding against the chassis produces the same reported fault as a failed sensor.
- A control input fault — Possible, and last: the other three are cheaper and far more common.
Check in this order, and why
- Stop using the appliance for gas cooking while this code is present — The control has already refused to trust part of the burner management chain, and that is a reason to leave it alone.
- Confirm there is no smell of gas near the appliance — This comes before every other check, every time.
- Power the unit down and note whether the code returns on restart — A code that returns immediately is a live fault, not a stored one.
- Book the visit rather than opening the burner compartment — Gas components are not owner-serviceable, and the code says the control has lost confidence in one of them.
What an owner can safely check
- If you smell gas: leave the building and call the gas utility or 911 from outside — Do not hunt for the leak yourself. This step comes before everything else on this page.
- Otherwise, turn the appliance off at its control and leave it off — There is no owner-side test for this circuit, so the useful action is to stop using it.
About 2 min
- Set down the code and what was running when it appeared — It shortens the visit and makes sure the right parts are on the van.
Tools: pen and paperAbout 5 min
Before anything is opened
Safety
Power off before panels off. Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before removing any panel; a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. Isolation on a built-in oven means the breaker, not a cord. Give the cavity and the inner door glass real time to cool before working anywhere near them. Leave the interlocking switches wired as they came. They exist to remove power at the moment it has to go.
When this stops being an owner job
A technician is the right next step immediately — this code is a service call from the moment it appears. Past there the work needs a meter or a panel removed, and a wall oven has to be unseated from its cabinet before the rear connections are reachable. A burning smell, scorching around the controls or a breaker tripping at start-up all change the answer to now, whatever else this page says.
Nearest error-code pages
What this page does not cover
This page reads E24 the way the shared Maytag oven code set defines it, which is the reading that holds across the model lines using that control platform. Older control generations that reuse the same characters are not covered, and neither is anything family-specific: wiring colours, connector pin numbers, torque figures and part numbers all change from family to family and are deliberately absent. A family or model page, where one exists, is the more specific answer and should be read in preference to this one — the linked code index collects them.
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