Electronic Ignition for Stovetop (w/pics)
I finally got tired enough of the piezoelectric igniter on my Atwood stovetop that I decided to replace it with a battery-powered igniter unit. You know what I’m talking about. You twist the knob; bam...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:Duramax1 wrote:
This information is for those of you with a Magic Chef stove that does not have any ignitors.
Last year I investigated doing this project and, like others above have noted, discovered that the four wire ignition kit from Home Depot is too high to fit in the stove.
This year I discovered that WalMart has a three wire ignitor kit which sells for $15.97 in Canada which will fit into the stove. I used a 25mm hole saw kit to cut the circular hole in the front stove panel.
Can you post a photo showing how you mounted the ignitors at the burners?
I will take a picture the next time I am at the RV.
Basically what I did was make a bracket which I affixed to the base of the stove by removing the screw that holds the burner in place. I shaped the bracket so that the igniter base was level with the bottom of the burner and then I bent the igniter wire so that it would fire at the opening where the gas comes out of the burnner.
The shaping of the bracket does have to be rather exact otherwise the stove top cover, when lowered, will close on top of and interfere with the ignitor.
