The stove top is working perfectly.
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.
This pilot light may not always stay lit due to a variety of issues that may affect the gas supply or ignitor.
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Thermocouples detect pilot lights by sensing the heat they produce.
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.
When the sensor is not heated by the pilot flame the solenoid closes the gas supply line.
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If it determines that the pilot light is off it shuts down the flow of gas.
Troubleshooting for an oven pilot light.
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I have a bakers pride y600 pizza oven.
The pilot will go out in the middle of a shift.
It consists of a heat sensor connected to a solenoid.
We have replaced the thermopile and then the safety gas valve.
When a thermocouple fails the pilot light won t stay lighted.
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.
There were no problems before the gas was originally shut off so we don t know why the oven pilot will not stay lit.
Today i pulled the chimney out and cleaned the whole thing out along with everything i could reach inside the oven.
The thermocouple which operates as a safety device turns the gas supply off when the pilot light goes out.
It consists of a heat sensor connected to a solenoid.
I lit the pilot and started the oven.
When a thermocouple fails the pilot light won t stay lighted.
The thermocouple which operates as a safety device turns the gas supply off when the pilot light goes out.
Within 45 minutes it went out again.
The gas was off for 5 days.
Most ovens have a glow bar ignition system.