Gas Oven Pilot Light Won T Stay Lit

Furnaces of various kinds are gas powered and use a pilot light to supply heat to the unit including standard home furnaces and floor furnaces.

Gas oven pilot light won t stay lit.

The first step in diagnosing a pilot light problem with your oven is to make sure the oven even has a pilot. When a thermocouple fails the pilot light won t stay lighted. When the sensor is not heated by the pilot flame the solenoid closes the gas supply line. While this is an excellent safety feature a faulty thermocouple may decide arbitrarily that your pilot light is off when you want it on shutting down your pilot light and your furnace.

Troubleshooting for an oven pilot light. If it determines that the pilot light is off it shuts down the flow of gas. In this hvac training video i show up close how the thermocouple pilot light and gas valve work on a water heater furnace fireplace as well as other ap. We have replaced the thermopile and then the safety gas valve.

There were no problems before the gas was originally shut off so we don t know why the oven pilot will not stay lit. It consists of a heat sensor connected to a solenoid. The stove top is working perfectly. I have a bakers pride y600 pizza oven.

I called my landlord and he said to bleed the stale air out for 2 3 minutes so i did. The thermocouple which operates as a safety device turns the gas supply off when the pilot light goes out. I lit the pilot and started the oven. The gas was off for 5 days.

The thermocouple which operates as a safety device turns the gas supply off when the pilot light goes out. How to replace the bake igniter in your gas oven. It consists of a heat sensor connected to a solenoid. Most ovens have a glow bar ignition system.

Click here to order a new oven ignitor. This pilot light may not always stay lit due to a variety of issues that may affect the gas supply or ignitor. The pilot will go out in the middle of a shift. Today i pulled the chimney out and cleaned the whole thing out along with everything i could reach inside the oven.

When a thermocouple fails the pilot light won t stay lighted. When the sensor is not heated by the pilot flame the solenoid closes the gas supply line. Thermocouples detect pilot lights by sensing the heat they produce.