Oven ignitor
I can't be the first guy to ask this question: Does anyone make a oven ignitor kit that can be added on? Every time my wife wants to use the oven she has to get down on her hands and knees to light th...
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ajriding wrote:
I just assumed the reason for no igniter in the oven is due to how hot it gets in the oven. Unlike a BBQ where the ignitor is under the unit and out in the open air, the oven is enclosed and the burner is right there. The underneath section of the oven gets hotter than the cooking compartment of the oven. How much heat can an ignitor take before it burns up?
Same for your stove and your hot water heater, the ignitor is not enclosed with the flame.
For you that have installed one yourself, has it lasted?
The trick to lighting an oven is to hold the lighter flame under the thermocoupler so it lets gas flow to the burner, not just the pilot light - then you are lighting the burner where a lot of gas is flowing out, but you also have to turn the oven to the Low setting. You can decide if this is safe for you or not as I am not interested in opinions of course. I do this all the time.
ours has been in the trailer 10 years and we use the oven probably 30+ times/year at least.
The one we got has the one ignitor with a high temp sheathing on the wire. It probably doesn't get as hot as the ignitor in our grill for the IR burner for the rotisserie, which is where the high temp ignitor wire goes. Ignitor can take temps way higher than the oven or grill will produce, it's the wire insulation that one needs to worry about. And there will be only 1-2 inches of wire in the oven, while the whole assembly has the high temp insulation.
