Surprises just keep coming ... new 5er
This is my 5th camper, 1 pop-up, 3 TT's, and now a 5er. In all my campers, I've always lit the oven pilot light by hold the oven knob to the on position, waiting a few seconds, then igniting a fire...
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pnichols wrote:2Rad4U wrote:Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Imagine something that's a standard feature on a cheap Chinese portable stove is now available in SOME thousand dollar RVs.
That's exactly what I thought when I used our new stove for the first time!
It's about time!
Hmmm .... I wonder if it's that way, too, for many of us here in the forums on all of our 10-15 year old ovens??
Maybe our sparkers have indeed had a branch reaching down to the oven pilot all along. :h
P.S. I just went out and checked our RV's 13 year old oven and it's sparker does have an unused outlet for another sparker line. But I guess that plugging in a sparker line there and running it down to the oven pilot would take some design engineering to: Both get into the oven with a hole for the sparker line (that would never short the sparker line from travel vibration) and also find a sparker line that can take the high heat that's inside an oven.
Not having a sparker line for the oven's pilot is probably safety driven - as there is nothing safer than requiring visual confirmaton that the pilot has indeed been lit BEFORE flooding the oven with a lot of gas from turning on the main burner's gas knob.
