atwood piezo no spark

[voodoo101]

One burner on my Atwood MPD 56282 quit sparking. I switched its wire to another burner and confirmed it is the piezo at the burner. Appears I must buy a whole new burner ($60) to replace it. Am I missing something? Appears the spark unit is built in. Or yes, I can keep a box of matches handy. Thanks, bill

[12thgenusa]

Or you can do as I did and add an external electrode next to the burner. Fairly inexpensive.

Original setup


New electrode

[352]

Go online. I bought mine at a small rv parts place last year for $35

[Dutch_12078]

voodoo101 wrote:
One burner on my Atwood MPD 56282 quit sparking. I switched its wire to another burner and confirmed it is the piezo at the burner. Appears I must buy a whole new burner ($60) to replace it. Am I missing something? Appears the spark unit is built in. Or yes, I can keep a box of matches handy. Thanks, bill

Look carefully at one of the burners that's working and notice the raised hole where the spark comes from. Then look for the same raised hole on the bad burner to make sure it isn't clogged with food spillage, etc. If it is, carefully clean it and see if starts working. The burner only has an electrode in it, the piezo unit itself is at the control panel, and serves all of the burners. I replaced our piezo ignitor with an electronic ignitor that provides multiple sparks at each burner with just a button push.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

When I was working with Marion Hovermale, he said 27% of Delco-Remy's income was derived from out-of-warranty parts replacement sales. Incredibly extensive service life studies were done on Remy components and they would not dream of a component upgrade unless it had the possibility of impinging on warranty territory. A CONTRA-GREEN philosophy that ------ me off now as it did 30-years ago.

This is what happens when the Robert McNamara's of the world captain the ships of industry. Until the USA sheds itself of trashcan engineering the Chinese are going to continue to eat our lunch. Why can't the USA build a HONDA grade generator? Wages in Japan are not cheap. Think about it. It's a national atrocity. Some political candidate is trumpeting the wrong tune.

[mbopp]

I've got 2 burners with no spark. But - the TT's only a month old and it's at the dealer now.

[KJINTF]

Toss it in the trash and buy another one
Same response I just received from AM Engineering, Lippert, Power Gear/Kwikee
Sorry we do not sell replacement parts for our Motors - buy a new one!!!!!!
Why is it a $2.00 part can not be obtained but a $70.00 part can
GREED
Or are they all made in China and no one really cares

[voodoo101]

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Same here. I grafted the bummer to the least-used burner position.

Thanks and good idea. But spark unit is in the burner and they are not interchangeable. At least not as far as I can tell.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Same here. I grafted the bummer to the least-used burner position.