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Old 03-21-2017, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by dieseljeep View Post
The last gas range, I bought was a Tappan in 1992. The ignitor was only for the top burners. The oven was lit by a glow plug type device in series with the main gas valve. It was glowing all the time the gas valve was open.
Yeah, that's the modern method, they call safety valve. Which makes sense honestly. If the igniter is shot, the gas valve won't open. The tricky thing with those is, if the glow plug is worn (high resistance), but not broken, the valve won't open, but you can't really tell what's wrong because the glow plug still visibly works.
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