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:
... Then I wonder why spark igniters haven't been on RV propane ovens for years?
I wonder if there isn't something we're all missing? Sometimes folks do DIY things that seem to be OK ... and sometimes there's negative stuff in the background that they may have all missed and still has not come back to bite them. :h
(However, the igniter on our RV's stovetop does have an unused sparker line port on it - for some reason.)
when we upgraded our RV oven to a bigger one in 2011 suburban, atwood, and magic chef all offered offered ovens with electronic batter powered spark ignitors for the burners and oven. Cost was about an extra $100 IIRC and "special order". I think that answers why RV mfg don't include them.
And home gas ovens have had either a spark or hot surface ignitor standard or optional for the pilot for decades and decades. It's not a new feature by any means. Hot surface ignitors aren't really viable for an RV since the common hot surface ignitors are designed to run off 120VAC, not 12V.
It's good to see that at least a few RV mfg are finally adding these features to the ovens.
