Well the parts guy got back with me and said he had the part. I meet him and guess what he had. He had a Electrode. He said you said you needed an ignitor. I said no I said I needed a reignitor not a spark electrode. What I dont understand is I even gave him the part number off of my original reignitor. Another thing is it took him a month to get a electrode? I got one from Amazon in two days. I figured out the way my main control board and reignitor work. Once the main control board gets the call for cooling it sends 12v through the wire to the gas valve which opens up. From that same wire it takes 12v up to the reignitor. The reignitor sends high voltage to the Electrode which sparks to ground of gas burner and lights flame. The electrode also senses a small difference in resistance once the flame is lite and that shuts the reignitor off so it will no longer spark. The thermocouple is there to sense there is no longer a flame when the main control board is still thinking it needs cooling. Like the flame blows out. Then the main control board shuts everything down and starts the process all over again. Also if the main control board does not get a signal from the thermocouple saying the flame is lite in a certain amount of time it shuts everything down for a preset amount of time and then tries again. I found an Atwood 91504 Universal Ignition Control for a hot water heater that is made to do the exact same thing. It operates the same way with the electrode. You use the factory type Electrode. I will have to change some connectors. Maybe only one. I seen a video of a guy using this unit on a refrigerator setup just like mine because he could not find one and it worked just like the original. It will spark and once the flame lights it stops sparking right away. The Atwood water heater works the same way with a main board a reignitor and a thermocouple. I posted this thinking maybe someone down the line will see it and dont have to go through everything I did. I have not installed it yet but hope to this weekend. I will report back after I get it installed. It worked good for the guy in the video. It does not mount exactly the same but not a big deal. If I would have known I would have to go through all of this I don't know if I would have changed the cooling unit or just bought a new fridge. I bet saving the kind of money I did would have won out. Thanks
