gas stove woes

mightybooboo · #41 01/14/07, 10:29 AM

You Rock Vicker,WTG!

BooBoo

e.alleg · #42 01/14/07, 10:38 AM

I suggest calling the installation guy up and having him fix it. You paid for him to set it up the first time (even if it was a promotion or free) and I suspect that the stove has the wrong jets in it. Depending on if you are using natural gas, propane, or oil gas from a local well and your elevation it will require different orifice sizes and air settings. I have a propane stove and I can put my coffee mug on it and warm up my cup on the lowest setting. Maybe the guy put the wrong grates above the burners?

littlebitfarm · #43 01/14/07, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by vicker

It worked! I had to use a very tiny jeweler's screw driver that dw had. Our owners manual did not address adjusting the low setting (I was getting ready to call the company). Our stove came ready to connect to natural gas. We use propane. The conversion was made by adjusting the regulator, changing all burner orfices, adjusting oven pilot light jet and adjusting the oven burner jet.

And where do I send my bill????

Kathie

hoofinitnorth · #44 01/23/07, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by melinda

Another thing is, when the stove relights to get back to the set temp, it always makes a fairly loud bang-sort of noise - I never heard that with natural gas. Not a huge explosion, just a noise that always gives me the willies. Maybe that's normal for propane?

Do you mean the oven? My oven is a Kenmore that was converted from NG to propane. I have noticed a similar sound when the oven is going over a period of time. I think it's the way it's set up to "light" vs. "relight" and that it probably relies on existing heat or an element farther away from the gas source to "relight" and thus it takes a minute for enough gas to get over there and then "explodes" when it ignites.