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Lighting
A Gas Oven
It is quite
easy to light a gas oven. Basically, there are three ways to light
a gas oven: the Pilot Ignition System, Spark Ignition System and
Hot Surface Ignition System. The later two ignition systems are
called “Electronic Ignition System”.
The
Pilot Ignition System
In the pilot ignition system, the actual flame in the oven is
referred to as pilot. Basically the pilot is lit all the time,
and when the gas oven is lighted, the pilot flame gets bigger
and the thermocouple bulb of the safety valve of the oven is lit.
Now when the thermocouple senses heat, it automatically opens
to allow gas to flow into the oven and finally the oven is lit.
Make sure that the oven is lighted within 1-1 1⁄2 minute.
If it doesn’t then there must be some problem.
The pilot
should always stay lighted or the gas will not reach the oven.
And you will never be able to light the oven for the gas pipe
will get blocked with grease and cobwebs. So keep the pilot lit
all the time, even when you are not using it.
Electronic
Ignition Systems
To light a gas oven you can use the following two types of Electronic
Ignition Systems.
Spark
Ignition System
Through this system lighting a gas oven is very easy. Here you
don’t have to keep the pilot lighted all the time. The oven
gets lighted with a “conventional” spark system. When
you want to light the oven, you can just turn on the oven and
gas will automatically start flowing into the oven. Once the pilot
is lit, the gas valves get heated, and the gas flowing, lights
the oven with a spark.
There is a new system recently discovered called the “Whirlpool
Direct Spark Ignition System”. In this system there is no
pilot, but the “spark” ignites the gas burner directly
and your gas oven is lighted.
Hot
Surface Ignition System
This is the most popular and widely used “electronic ignition
system”. It consists of a thermostat or an electronic control
mechanism, an oven gas valve and an oven ignitor.
In this system,
the oven ignitor and the gas valves are connected in a series.
When you light the oven, the power and heat is transferred to
the gas ignitor and gas valves by the thermostat. Now, this power
heats the ignitor and gas begins to flow to the open gas valve.
If the system is correct then this heat will now be transferred
to the oven burner, which will light the gas oven ultimately.
The ignition system takes hardly 30-60 seconds to light the oven.
Just a few
thoughts as you are outfitting your kitchen. There are many more
kitchen articles in our kitchen
section. There is more specific information in the links at
the beginning of this article. They can guide you where you need
to go.
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