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Geocritter
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Aug 29, 2014

Stovetop burners making yellow flames

My 1994 Holiday Rambler Vacationer is equipped with an Atwood 3-burner stove. It worked fine for about 10 months and now for the last month or so I’m getting yellow in my burner flames and soot on the bottom of my pots and pans. It’s affecting all three burners and I have done nothing to the burner controls other than normal off/on and adjust with the knobs on the stove front. My propane tank is half full and I haven’t added propane in about a year (I only use the stove for cooking and have no other propane use). Since all the burners are affected I’m thinking I’m having a regulator issue, but thought I’d run it by here before I purchased a new regulator just on a hunch.

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  • Could be regulator but if all other appliances are working normally I might look more closely at the cooktop. I've had this happen on the side burner of my home BBQ and it's because the air tube was clogged with spider web debris. A couple shots of compressed air and all was fine. I was getting the exact same thing - orange flame and soot on the bottom of pans.
  • Have you changed tank supplier? Did you exchange for blue rhino at wally world?
  • What happens with other appliances? How does your water heater flame look? If it looks the same, then probably the regulator.
    If the water heater burns blue, check for a regulator under the stove top.
  • It does have the indications of a regulator that is going south. I believe I would start with filling the propane tank do a test with the stove and then see about replacing the regulator