Date:         Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:06:42 -0400
Reply-To:     Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
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From:         Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: 91 fridge not lighting
Comments: To: Mike Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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Sorry, I took it to mean the RED lamp (not LED) that indicates the
SPARKER, not the green LED that indicated the FLAME.
If it is the LED (which usually won't glow much until the flame has
been on for several seconds anyway) then you could be low on propane.


On Jun 16, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Mike Elliott wrote:

On 6/16/2006 12:13 PM Kim Brennan wrote:
> If the LED glows dimly and then goes out, you may have
> 1) weak battery (not enough voltage and it can't spark
Isn't the sparker a piezo sparker? They don't use batteries.

For example, see http://madsci.org/posts/archives/
dec98/914741561.Eg.r.html

A dim LED that goes out suggests to me that there was sufficient heat
(flame) at the burner to light the lamp, but it did not get very hot and
it went out. Not a bad sparker, else there would not have been any lamp
lighting at all.