/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1540245
Interesting. Now that I think about it, the resistor really shouldn't prevent the kettle from heating up, as it is between the two indicator LEDs, and not affecting the actual heating element. Oh and I checked the heating element and I'm not getting continuity between its sides either.
Would it be fair assume that the heating element somehow failed and then subsequently the resistor did too, because all the current went to it, instead of the heating element? If so, then my last question would be this - how the hell does something as primitive as a heating element fail? It's just a big piece of metal, isn't it?