How much propane does oven pilot light use?
We leave ours on all the time - basically all the time when we're snowbirding - months. It occurs to me that could add up to a lot of propane. Standard 3 burner Dometic with oven. Anybody know h...
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SoundGuy wrote:joebedford wrote:
We leave ours on all the time - basically all the time when we're snowbirding - months.
It occurs to me that could add up to a lot of propane. Standard 3 burner Dometic with oven.
Anybody know how much? I have no idea.
The burner flame in a small 1.7 cu ft manual light gas absorption fridge such as a Norcold 323 uses ~ 625 BTU / hr. The pilot flame in your oven is about the same size so it's reasonable to assume a similar consumption rate. A pound of propane is worth ~ 21,500 BTU so the math tells us 1 pound of propane would run that oven pilot for about 34 hours, 20 lbs about 688 hours or ~ 28 days. With a manual light fridge it's necessary to have that flame running but leaving the pilot burning in the oven seems like a waste of propane to me. ;)
X2. Pilot lights are very wasteful, which is why most appliance manufacturers have dispensed with them entirely.
