Using the oven while moving...
Does anyone use their oven while towing? I'm not sure there is anything wrong with doing that, just wondering if I am missing something. The thermocouple will shut down the gas on the odd event...
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Huntindog wrote:AH64ID wrote:X3. You have a unsafe oven. You need to get it fixed ASAP... If it can vent propane with the pilot out, then it is not safe to even turn the propane tanks on... It can leak gas inside and end up killing you.
Not sure it is something we would ever need, but we where talking about it last weekend.
We had a pizza in mind, not that they take all that long to cook... But 20 minutes to a kid can be a long time when they are hungry.Impkitti wrote:
Are you sure your thermocouple is designed to turn off the gas if the flame goes out? What if it fails? I know my stove will continue to vent propane if the pilot goes out.
That's the purpose of a thermocouple. If your pilot light still vents without a flame then you have a failed, and unsafe, thermocouple.
X4 on the thermocouple as a residential gas HVAC service tech, I can tell you the basic thermocouple safety design has been used for about 100 years and is normally very reliable, it's designed to fail off, if your oven is leaking gas when the pilot is off for more than approximately a minute, you have a serious problem and need to get it fixed.
