One of the burners of my gas stove has the sparker continuously firing right now. It sparks non stop about twice a second. There’s no gas coming out so its not a fire hazard, but it’s loud and annoying and it must be draining quite a lot of electricity. Of course normally it only fires when you hold down the gas knob, so it must have short circuited. Pressing the kno up and down as hard as I can repeatedly hasn’t stopped it, so its not a simple mechanical jam.
I can only stop it by turning off the circuit that the stove is on, but that circuit also has the whole rest of my downstairs on it.
Anyone got suggestions? It’s one of those fancy stoves where its sunk into the counter top, I can’t easily see how to get inside it. I’d guess I need to turn the circuit off and then remove the sparker?
Yes, I know it’s a gas stove, but the igniters are electrical as you know. There is typically an electrical pigtail plugged into a common receptacle, behind the stove or beneath it if it is a cooktop.
aha, I thought the stove was wired directly into the mains (they sometimes do that in Australia) but you were right it does have a plug socket in back of a cupboard where I had never noticed it…
Now its got no power, Would anyone think removing the sparker from that one burner is a job that could be done easily and safely?
User manual available there. Occasional clicking when off may mean liquid in the mechanism either from a boil over or over zealous cleaning. Remove the control knobs and take a hair dryer to it 5 minutes per knob.