Electronic Ignition for Stovetop (w/pics)

j-d wrote:
Does your Oven have a Safety of some kind to shut the gas to the PILOT off if the Pilot goes out? Ours does not, and for that reason I decided not to do one piezo with an electrode in the Oven as well as three on Stove Top. We've had the Oven Pilot go out, and fill the oven with LPG. I would not want to spark it every time we lit a surface burner and have one of those times ignite an oven full of LPG.

The oven is vented to the stovetop surface at the back. You would smell the gas long before there was a combustible mixture in the oven.

The oven control on which the original mod was done requires pressing the knob to override the thermocouple safety and emit gas to the pilot. I'm fairly certain that if the pilot were to go out, the gas valve would stop flow to the pilot as soon as the thermocouple cooled, which would happen very quickly.

That said, the Oven lights very easily if the Pilot is primed a few minutes before sparking it with a long BBQ lighter. It lights even more easily if I request a baking temperature before lighting. The pilot flares up when the oven goes into baking mode, and that flare up admits more LPG for less delay in lighting.
This oven has "Pilot" as a dial position. No pressing or the like involved.
I might consider a second Piezo, dedicated to the Oven. That and a mirror made from a stainless steel spatula to be able to look at the pilot.

I can easily see the reflection of the spark and the pilot flame in the shiny lower surface of the oven. No mirror needed.