Weak spark on de longhi oven

[bowie]

Hi all, I have a DeLonghi GSS601 gas cooker which has recently taken to not lighting the oven from the igniter. I looked at the electrode an found the connection on the rear to be corroded. Disturbing it resulted in the connection coming apart. I replaced the electrode for a new one and made good the connector with a small spade terminal.
However, it now has a weak spark which is also only an intermitent spark.
The igniters on the hob are performing ok though. Could it be that the oven supplying part of the igniter module is packing up ?

Anybody had this one before ?

Chris.

[helo_75]

Can’t really advise greatly on gas appliances I’m afraid.

It’s not unusual for the burner to be the problem there – it goes all rough and doesn’t spark.

That being said, it could be the cable (most likely), or, of course the spark generator itself.

Time to request a service engineer; ur not really supposed to be repairing it unless your corgi registered, and that’s why we can’t really advise for you to do d.i.y repairs, especially if you have to start taking it apart.

And yes, I did one of them last week, and it was the generator, and they’re not cheap.

[Penguin45]

Re: Weak spark on de longhi oven

We don’t advise on gas repairs:
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.p … ic&t=16259

We’d rather you lived a long and happy life.

Penguin45.

[bowie]

Re: Weak spark on de longhi oven

I understand your concerns about the gas. If I need to disconnect or disturb any gas pipes I will be leaving that well alone.
Isn’t it possible to change the spark generator without disconnecting the gas supply. Or is that something you would avoid ?

I will probably get it disconnected and taken off to the local specialist.

Chris.

[kwatt]

Hi Chris,

The guys won’t advise it simply due to the culture we live in. It is perfectly legitimate for you to do the job yourself as you only have to be “competent” (see more below), but…

If you use our advice and then blow your house up then EU law dictates that we can be held accountable for offering that advice to someone that isn’t considered to be “competent” in the eyes of the law. How that badge of competency is gained is at best debatable but currently for an individual operating in a commercial setting it is deemed to be ACS qualified and CORGI registered, for the most part.

Therefore, in any event, we (the individual that advises) could become liable if you do something stupid, not to put too fine a point on it. The onus is on us to prove we were in the right.

But it isn’t just you, we have to consider the next few hundred people witht he same or similar problem that may read this thread. We cannot judge their competency just as we cannot reasonably judge yours. Even if were possible to remotely judge this we’d have to be qualified and approved by the HSE to do it.

Whilst this is grossly unfair and perhaps even totally absurd, personally I don’t agree with this even remotely but, it is the way of things.

Welcome to the nanny state. 😕

K.

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