Date:         Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:25:28 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Refrigerator gasket and flame goes out remedies
Comments: To: Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@onebeam.net>
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At 02:14 PM 8/5/2012, Leonard Sitongia wrote:
>I assume the measurement is made while running on gas.  While lighting it,
>while it is lit, and when it goes out?

While running on full flame and while running on pilot (turning the
thermostat all the way down gives you pilot-only).  If the
thermocouple is marginal I wouldn't be surprised if the flame went
out when  you shift to pilot.  But you need to compare the
measurements with a working one.  I used to know what a good one
measured, but that was long ago and far away.

Suggest you ask for help with that, with the request in the subject
line and my instructions about where to find it included.

Measurements will be less than one that's disconnected from the
valve, as the thermocouple is supplying some significant fraction of
an amp at that tiny voltage to an electromagnet composed of a very
few turns of thick wire.


>I can get to the black wire in the cabinet to the right of the fridge.
>Would I disconnect the black wire from the connector leading to the
>harness, and then measure between the end of the black wire that leads to
>the fridge and ground?

That's right.

Yrs,
d