troubleshooting a propane range oven pilot
So...this isn't really an RV specific question, as I've turned my TT into essentially a permanent tiny home, but I figured this was a good a place as any for a general knowledge base on propane applia...
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Finally got a chance to pull it off the wall, cleaned and adjusted, and the normal pilot difinitely seems better, but still having the same issue where the burner pilot doesn't engage until the oven thermostat is turned up to 200ish, and is still taking a long time to actually light the burner.
So that plate thing could be the culprit of why it takes so long for the burner to actually fire. I didn't move it but the stove is second-hand so it could have been I guess. I'll have to pull it out again and see if I can adjust the position. I still can't figure out why the burner pilot isn't coming on now until the oven thermostat is turned up to 200ish.
Ironically, turning that adjuster for LP or NG fixes the issue with oven...by making the burner pilot much larger. It doesn't seem to have any other negative effect, the main pilots are all the same, top burners run the same, oven burner pilot engages and lights the burner when it needs to heat up, and shuts off once up to temp. I ran it like that for a few days just to see (keeping an eye on everything), and it also seems like the oven comes up to temp a lot faster than it did. Which I guess makes sense if the unit is supplying more gas?
So that plate thing could be the culprit of why it takes so long for the burner to actually fire. I didn't move it but the stove is second-hand so it could have been I guess. I'll have to pull it out again and see if I can adjust the position. I still can't figure out why the burner pilot isn't coming on now until the oven thermostat is turned up to 200ish.
Ironically, turning that adjuster for LP or NG fixes the issue with oven...by making the burner pilot much larger. It doesn't seem to have any other negative effect, the main pilots are all the same, top burners run the same, oven burner pilot engages and lights the burner when it needs to heat up, and shuts off once up to temp. I ran it like that for a few days just to see (keeping an eye on everything), and it also seems like the oven comes up to temp a lot faster than it did. Which I guess makes sense if the unit is supplying more gas?
