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:Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the pilot light have to be on energizing the thermocouple before the main gas line will flow?
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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.
And it's easy to stick a shiny piece of metal down there to be able to see the pilot light flame. That's how we check ours to ascertain the pilot light stays lit.
