I was reading the posts about people with frozen water lines and decided to see what my manuals said about winterizing. I noticed it said the exposed lines were electric heat taped, and the plug for it was plugged in to a receptacle beside the water heater. So I found it and without tracing where the wires went I unplugged the single cord which was plugged in.
So far, so good, right? Well, no, now the stove doesn't light (normally sparks when you push down the knob). After looking the cord over and seeing it goes only to the stove wires, we plugged it back in. Now it works, but the sparker sparks about every half-second. If you go through the normal lighting routine it lights, and adds the regular lighting sparks to the background beat. Aside from the possible damage to the sparker, it's annoying to hear the snap, snap, snap......
Doing a power cycle doesn't seem to make any difference, so can anybody make any suggestions?
the stove is a circa 1990 Gaggeneau two burner model VGK 223-8. I tried their website but it doesn't seem to offer support....
thanks
fulltime 5 months a year
FMCA 368297
1990 Beaver Marquis 40'
Gillig MHA 3208T chassis, 300 HP Cat 3208, Allison MT647
Are you saying that the spark ignitor continues to spark after the burner comes on? If so, you may have broken one of the spark swiches when messing with the wiring. Each burner has a spark switch mounted on the burner valve.. each has two wires going to it. Check to see if one of the wires pulled off or if the wire broke.
We don't have your brand of stove, however when we turn on the burners on our stove and they ignite with the spark if we don't turn the knob further on it will keep sparking.
The knob switch for the electronic ignition could be faulty, but if it continues to spark then some other problem exists.
Good luck fixing it, and if you would let us know what it was causing the problem.
Jim
Jim & Sherry Seward
Las Vegas, NV
2000 Residency 3790 V-10 w/tags & Banks System
2003 Suzuki XL/7 toad
LVJ58 wrote: We don't have your brand of stove, however when we turn on the burners on our stove and they ignite with the spark if we don't turn the knob further on it will keep sparking.
The knob switch for the electronic ignition could be faulty, but if it continues to spark then some other problem exists.
Good luck fixing it, and if you would let us know what it was causing the problem.
Jim
Have to agree, after the burner lights try and turn the burner valve either up or down and see if the "Ignitor" quits sparking. My stove is not like that but my BBQ is. If you leave the burner valve in thee "Light" position, it will just keep sparking. Give it a try.
Othertonka
2004 Southwind 32VS 8.1 Workhorse chassis
2002 CRV Toad
U. S. Gear Unified brake system
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you might try turning the plug over and replugging.
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I left it unplugged until the next ime we used it -6 hours - and the extra sparking had slowed down a lot. During cooking dinner it stopped completley, and hasn't started again.
Thanks for all the advice. I'll remember it in case I have this problem again.
I left it unplugged until the next ime we used it -6 hours - and the extra sparking had slowed down a lot. During cooking dinner it stopped completley, and hasn't started again.
Thanks for all the advice. I'll remember it in case I have this problem again.
I had this problem on an in house cook top when ever we cleaned it....Your cooking dried it out so it stopped sparking.
sunflyer
2005 Fleetwood Excursion 39S
350 Cat
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