I'll add a little more meat to the thread.
This fridge has a thermocouple with two leads, so the sparker is just a sparker. It appears that the new igniter does have some intelligence built in where it will sense the absence of a flame and start the spark process over again (the reigniter part) if there still is power to the igniter. I'm going to put a meter on the leads to see how things really work with the board and the igniter leads.
Local RV repair place had been asked to repair the unit after I found the problem for the neighbor, that's when the neighbor found out the part was out of production, and was then told to replace the whole fridge (over a thousand dollars.) I'm thinking we're better then that. For pete sake all it is, is a tiny coil.
I'm going to let the neighbor decide if he wants to just live with a 12v and 110v fridge, or give the new reigniter a try with the understanding that there is no guarantee's it will work, and not do any damage.
Personally I hope he goes for it. I'm thinking I did my due diligence on it, and would love to see if it fixes the problem. I'll update this post with the results so others might benefit from the outcome. It might be a couple of weeks though.
