Commercial Gas Stove Pilot Light

In this hvac training video i show up close how the thermocouple pilot light and gas valve work on a water heater furnace fireplace as well as other ap.

Commercial gas stove pilot light.

You can quickly check the hi limit by taking a wire off and connecting it with the other wire. When a gas range is at the heart of your commercial kitchen any malfunction with your pilot and flash tubes can cause a huge problem. When lighting the pilot if the thermocouple is not directly in the flame it doesn t get hot enough to allow it to open the safety valve. The pilot light is a small gas light meant to burn continuously in order to light a larger burner when needed but it may go out if a draft extinguishes the light its valve is dirty or the.

Push in the oven control while you hold a lighter in front of the pilot orifice. Be sure to set the thermostat to the off position and wait 5 minutes before attempting to relight the pilot. The pilot light is a small open flame that is fed by a steady flow of gas. Before you light it turn on the two back burners on the stove to bleed air from the gas line.

In fact the average pilot light consumes 70 80 percent of gas used by a commercial range. This may require the help of another person. Remove the lighter when the small blue pilot flame starts burning but keep the oven control depressed. How to light a standard oven.

Over the course of a year that could mean thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in savings. 80 of the time the thermocouple causes this problem. If your pilot light will not stay lit on your commercial fryer it could be a result of a bad hi limit thermopile or combination safety gas valve. If the pilot light remains lit then you know you need to replace the hi limit.

Light the pilot light located within the burner with a lighter. So if your kitchen uses 1 000 therms of natural gas per month you may be able to cut that number down to just 200 300 therms simply by eliminating the pilot. In newer appliances ignition may be achieved by a sparking device or a glow bar instead of a pilot light. Hold down the red button on the gas safety valve to release gas.

You may need to press it more than once. If it is directly in the flame and it won t stay lit then the thermocouple is probably defective and needs to be replaced keep in mind that some safety valves have the thermocouple permanently attached so the entire valve must be replaced. On a range top gas is always coming out of your pilot. Pilot light won t stay lit.