Suburban oven pilot will not stay lit
I have a Suburban 3 burner range, model SRNA3LBBEZ purchased in 2018. There is an issue which is driving me to drink. I can light the oven pilot fine, and the main burner lights as expected. At some p...
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there should be a rod that sits in the pilot flame. that rod is a thermoelectric pile. when it gets hot it is a electric source. the output of the thermoelectric pile keeps the gas valve open. So.
1) make sure the thermopile is in the flame.
2) make sure the pilot is burning well. these have a small orifice so any dust, dirt, spider webs, rust can result in a low flame pilot.
3) those thermopiles do fail, not often but the do. usually the failure mode is reduced voltage output which will result in the pilot extenquising. if it fails with no output, you can't keep the pilot buring w/o holding in the pilot switch.
1) make sure the thermopile is in the flame.
2) make sure the pilot is burning well. these have a small orifice so any dust, dirt, spider webs, rust can result in a low flame pilot.
3) those thermopiles do fail, not often but the do. usually the failure mode is reduced voltage output which will result in the pilot extenquising. if it fails with no output, you can't keep the pilot buring w/o holding in the pilot switch.
