Servicing a Hotpoin Halogen Cooker -any pitfalls?

[ppppenguin]

I thought the whole point of halogen hobs is that the heating element IS the halogen lamps. This gives quick response, unlike conventional electric hobs. When I was at Thorn-EMI in the mid 1980s and halogen hobs were very new we had a demonstrator system which switched the lamps on and off ona fairly short cycle. You could watch a pan of waterbe boiled, then stopping almost instantly as the lamps were turned off.

Halogen hobs are almost as good as gas