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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Mont G&J wrote:
The answer to the OP's question.
How much gas does a standing pilot use?
Again, this goes back to the design of the burner. A thermocouple system uses about 700 btu's per hour while a thermopile system about 1500 btu's. I find it easier to understand volume in gallons; a gallon of LP gas contains roughly 91,500 btu's. A thermopile assisted burner therefore uses one gallon of gas in 61 hours, or nearly 12 gallons a month. A thermocouple system would be roughly half that amount.
Your oven pilot uses the thermocouple design.
My RV oven pilot uses neither design, actually. It's a standard two-stage sort of pilot. When no heat is being called for, it just runs with a teeny tiny flame. When heat is called for, the pilot is enlarged (more gas is fed to it) and it grows to envelope and heat the bulb of a thermostatic safety valve.
