Why no oven ignitor? Is it easy to add an oven ignitor?

ktmrfs wrote:
Is it easy???

And don't think you can do it with a ignitor with 2 or 3 outputs and put several in parallel. Won't work. on the ones you parallel only ONE will spark, not both/all.

You have to ground the unused circuits and then it will work.

Atwood and suburban to make RV ovens with electronic ignitors for the oven. But from looking at the price difference, a DIY install pays for itself BIG time.

Many people have done this mod, try searching as there are many psot on the subject. One of the best mods I have done to ours, no more getting down on my bad knees with a flashlight and lighter to light the oven. :)

How Ironic. We have one and the wife won't use it! She prefers to reach in and use a long handle butane lighter!

Different strokes for everyone.

This link is worth saving.

When I bought my 1972 camper, it had already installed a aftermarket spark ignighter for the refrigerator powered by a 9 volt battery. So once you turn on the refrigeraor, you would turn on this aftermarket circuit board, and then it would spark anytime there is no flame senced by the circuit board.

This type of spark ignighter is still available. I bought a 120 volt version for about $35 to put on a direct vent furnace, in a Lake Tahoe cabin. The pilot would blow out, and then the room would freeze, damaging the piping in that room. The heater used a PG9 pilot generator, not a normal gas valve, but more like a wall furnace that does not normally use 120 volt power.

With a 9 volt or 12 volt spark ignighter, you would install a switch convient to the oven area, then turn it on when you wanted to use the oven, and off when you did not. It would keep sparking all the time the pilot is not lit, so you would want to turn it off when the oven control is in the pilot off position.

Why not have a electric pilot built into the MagicChef Stoves? Ask them. I guess if one manufacture started producing them, and all RV manufactures stopped buying all other brands of ovens except the ones with self ignition, then all RV oven manufactures would build a oven with self ignition.

Good Luck!

Fred.

Here is a post with pictures......LINK

Is it easy??? kinda depends on your DIY skills. Moderate DIY skills and tools and it's pretty straigthforward. Was very Easy for me. yes, there are multiple posts on how to do it. DW says it's by far the best mod so far.

FWIW, start with a replacement electric spark ignitor for bbq grills with 4 (yes four) output terminals. That way you will end up with electric ignition for the burners and over. and it will come with one wire that has high temp insulation for the oven.

And don't think you can do it with a ignitor with 2 or 3 outputs and put several in parallel. Won't work. on the ones you parallel only ONE will spark, not both/all.

Do a search, several have added an igniter to their ovens.