Amperage Measurement

[jayo318]

We do you need to measure with amperage on a gas oven if the VAC reading is the same at the gas valve?????

[Quick]

44 minutes ago, jayo318 said:

We do you need to measure with amperage on a gas oven if the VAC reading is the same at the gas valve?????

Not sure how to decipher your question? Is your oven not coming on? Once you energize the circuit by turning the oven on you can take a amperage reading off any wire going to the ignitor. The correct amprage requred to lite the oven will be listed on the safty valve itself.

[jayo318]

Thanks quick. I was just wondering since you can test for 3.2 to 3.6 VAC at the gas valve why does everyone say test for amperage of 3.2 to 3.6 with a ampmeter. Just curious

[Quick]

4 hours ago, jayo318 said:

I was just wondering since you can test for 3.2 to 3.6 VAC at the gas valve

Never heard of such a thing. Don't know what to tell you. 

[vee8power]

You're looking for 3.2-3.6 AMPS, not volts on a gas oven with a flat ignitor. Use an amp clamp.

[Budget Appliance Repair]

Volts on the gas valve will work also - but just much easier to use a clamp-amp meter.

The voltage drop thru the ignitor will make voltage at the gas valve read 3.2 to 3.6 Vac as listed on the gas valve if the ignitor is pulling the correct amps.

This just isn't a very common way to check since the clamp-amp meter is just so much easier and quicker - if you don't have clamp-amp meter then a voltage check at the valve would be the next best thing.

If the ignitor glows and the burner won't light or you get complaints of it taking a long to for the oven to light and sometimes smell gas then you can be pretty much 98% sure you have a bad ignitor without doing any other checks, also a weak ignitor will just be a duller orange glow instead of a bright orange/white glow.

Edited January 18, 2023 by Budget Appliance Repair

[jayo318]

Thanks Willie,you wouldnt believe how many techs i have respond to me when i tell a DIYer online if they dont have an amp meter to just check for voltage that i have no idea what im talking about.

[vee8power]

25 minutes ago, jayo318 said:

Thanks Willie,you wouldnt believe how many techs i have respond to me when i tell a DIYer online if they dont have an amp meter to just check for voltage that i have no idea what im talking about.

i bow to yer skill

[Dwbingham]

What should the amps be aproximately, btw?

[Terry Carmen]

7 hours ago, Dwbingham said:

What should the amps be aproximately, btw?

Within whatever is on the gas valve label. It will say what it requires.

[Dwbingham]

On 11/22/2023 at 5:09 PM, Terry Carmen said:

Within whatever is on the gas valve label. It will say what it requires.

Thank you very very much

[Terry Carmen]

1 hour ago, Dwbingham said:

Thank you very very much

You're welcome!

It's good to check anyway if you're not 100% certain, because you never know who was there before or what they installed.

There's no particular reason to believe that the igniter that's there when you arrive is actually correct.