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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This is sooo slick couple of snafoos but Margaret is stoked.
I thought mounting the generator to panle was the hard part. Finished installing today. But I ended up having to remove the trim screw boss on right bottom and about an inch of the folded up lip on stove top.
The Brinkman generator simply was to tall to fit between the top lip on trim panel and the lip on top of stove. Looking around I havnt seen where anyone else had this issue-so maybe my generator is just taller
which comparing to 12thgenusa 3rd pic it is and deepeer which forced mine to the left and the 'adjustments'.
Minor just unexpected.
The pilot/thermocouple mount on our Atwood is quite a bit different than others shown. The thermocoupler is actually below the pilot-has a little trough that directs flame down. Ended up pulling the oven burner so I could make electrode holder &set it up in the shop(disconneting pilot gas line & thermocoupling which just has a wire spring clip holding it.) One nut & bolt at door end & it was out.
Made a bracket that uses pilot to burner screw as there simply isnt anything to attach to-adjust to get 1/4" gap. Tested & it sparked (wow its quite noticable that the other leads were not connected if hand is in wrong place :). I added the extra heat shrink to leads as outputs very close, also cut TV dinner tray and placed under neath and on side for more isolation.
Works well, just seeing now how close electrode is to flame curious about longevity. What I should have done (or if the short ignitor fails) is used one of the long ones, made simpler L bracket and bent electrode to reach in.
Put everything back together. Turned on the gas. While waiting I played with the sparker. I noted that the oven which has the longest wire and largest gap has the strongest spark. Right stove burner is pretty weak -but has the shortest wire. I have the 2 long electrodes I could add but I may try changing out the wire 1st to see the effect, nope tried it, changed to long wire no differance.
Anyway tested the burners-they light 1st or 2nd spark--cool. But the oven, 1st spark every time-I'm just amazed-When Margaret wants to use the oven I may even vouleenter to light it for her now..Just too nice. fun stuff.
Oh I put a spacer behind the front burner knob to defeat being able to turn on now that it might be expected to light with striker.
Use to see the stainless mirrors in the 'camp' section at drug store. Think the mirror a great idea even for manually lighting-
I thought mounting the generator to panle was the hard part. Finished installing today. But I ended up having to remove the trim screw boss on right bottom and about an inch of the folded up lip on stove top.
The Brinkman generator simply was to tall to fit between the top lip on trim panel and the lip on top of stove. Looking around I havnt seen where anyone else had this issue-so maybe my generator is just taller
which comparing to 12thgenusa 3rd pic it is and deepeer which forced mine to the left and the 'adjustments'.
Minor just unexpected.
The pilot/thermocouple mount on our Atwood is quite a bit different than others shown. The thermocoupler is actually below the pilot-has a little trough that directs flame down. Ended up pulling the oven burner so I could make electrode holder &set it up in the shop(disconneting pilot gas line & thermocoupling which just has a wire spring clip holding it.) One nut & bolt at door end & it was out.
Made a bracket that uses pilot to burner screw as there simply isnt anything to attach to-adjust to get 1/4" gap. Tested & it sparked (wow its quite noticable that the other leads were not connected if hand is in wrong place :). I added the extra heat shrink to leads as outputs very close, also cut TV dinner tray and placed under neath and on side for more isolation.
Works well, just seeing now how close electrode is to flame curious about longevity. What I should have done (or if the short ignitor fails) is used one of the long ones, made simpler L bracket and bent electrode to reach in.
Put everything back together. Turned on the gas. While waiting I played with the sparker. I noted that the oven which has the longest wire and largest gap has the strongest spark. Right stove burner is pretty weak -but has the shortest wire. I have the 2 long electrodes I could add but I may try changing out the wire 1st to see the effect, nope tried it, changed to long wire no differance.
Anyway tested the burners-they light 1st or 2nd spark--cool. But the oven, 1st spark every time-I'm just amazed-When Margaret wants to use the oven I may even vouleenter to light it for her now..Just too nice. fun stuff.
Oh I put a spacer behind the front burner knob to defeat being able to turn on now that it might be expected to light with striker.
Use to see the stainless mirrors in the 'camp' section at drug store. Think the mirror a great idea even for manually lighting-
