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Help, the burners on my gas range won't light.
4/26/2012 1:07:08 PM
It's a Whirlpool WFG114SVQ0, um, about two years old now I guess. It has an electronic display, and it isn't flashing any kind of fault codes.
The night before last, everything was great, then yesterday evening, the burners won't light. I can manually light them with a stick lighter, but it's like the sparker or igniter, whichever it may be, sounds really, really weak. Before it would click-click-click pretty fast and loud as the burners were lighting, now it just sounds really lethargic, much quieter than it was, which leads me to believe my problem is in that assembly.
Any recommended course of action would be greatly appreciated.
The night before last, everything was great, then yesterday evening, the burners won't light. I can manually light them with a stick lighter, but it's like the sparker or igniter, whichever it may be, sounds really, really weak. Before it would click-click-click pretty fast and loud as the burners were lighting, now it just sounds really lethargic, much quieter than it was, which leads me to believe my problem is in that assembly.
Any recommended course of action would be greatly appreciated.
4/26/2012 1:41:45 PM
Originally Posted By Quintin:
It's a Whirlpool WFG114SVQ0, um, about two years old now I guess. It has an electronic display, and it isn't flashing any kind of fault codes.
The night before last, everything was great, then yesterday evening, the burners won't light. I can manually light them with a stick lighter, but it's like the sparker or igniter, whichever it may be, sounds really, really weak. Before it would click-click-click pretty fast and loud as the burners were lighting, now it just sounds really lethargic, much quieter than it was, which leads me to believe my problem is in that assembly.
Any recommended course of action would be greatly appreciated.
It's a Whirlpool WFG114SVQ0, um, about two years old now I guess. It has an electronic display, and it isn't flashing any kind of fault codes.
The night before last, everything was great, then yesterday evening, the burners won't light. I can manually light them with a stick lighter, but it's like the sparker or igniter, whichever it may be, sounds really, really weak. Before it would click-click-click pretty fast and loud as the burners were lighting, now it just sounds really lethargic, much quieter than it was, which leads me to believe my problem is in that assembly.
Any recommended course of action would be greatly appreciated.
Check the high voltage wires for damage, or any type of build up between the electrode and burner ring on each burner.
Even even one electrode gap is low impedance none may spark enough to light.
4/26/2012 10:44:36 PM
Check for spilled food, a flake of carbon, or one of the ignitor wires bent too close to the burner. Pay particular attention to insulator (white ceramic) to see if there is something spilled on it.
