I have a BlueStar gas range, six burners, oven+broiler, all gas. A few days ago the oven quit working: the pilot light comes on but there is no ignite r heat or gas flow at any position of the oven control knob, including broi l.
A bit of googling and we figured it was the igniter. I had the igniter fail in my boiler a while ago so I was familiar with this.
The old igniter has a cold resistance of over 300 ohms; when the oven knob is on, 120 V appears across it but no current flows (I have a clamp ammeter ). Got a replacement igniter, cold resistance is about 50 ohms.
But it still doesn't work. There's still 120 V across the igniter but still no current flows. The igniter doesn't heat and the gas valve doesn't open. Obviously at 50 ohms it should be passing 2.4 amps and generating 280+ Wat ts, at least until it warms up.
So there's some other very high resistance in the circuit--but I *do* see 1
20 V so it's not a broken wire.Is the gas valve the next likely culprit?
The gas valve is a dual design that combines the oven and the broiler contr ols into one block. I cannot tell if these functions are inter-wired, excep t that the broiler doesn't work either, so perhaps they are. I never knew w hether running the broiler also lit the bottom burner.
Any advice appreciated,
Chip C Toronto