Gas Hob constant ignition clicking (by 2 users)

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Had the same problem. All five burners were continuously igniting, after my wife had given the stove a clean. Turned off the power, removed the five knobs and corresponding rubber rings, and used a hair dryer on the five holes where the knobs were for about ten minutes in total. Hey presto, when I turned the power back on, the constant igniting had stopped. Thank you all. I love the internet :-)

Hi
I had similar problem today and got great help from this forum. I immediately realised in the begining that this is a problem with moisture/water content. I live in a rented apartment and could not find the exact location of switch for the power supply to the knob.
When i saw the post, i need to do something to remove this moisture. I could not find something to heat and tried to use vaccum cleaner to remove some moisture. But did not work.
And what a surprise...exactly similar to above story, my wife said..we can use her hair dryer. So i used it and problem solved withing 10 mins.
Thanks for sharing problems. I was in also in dilemma in the begining and scary thoughts of lot of money to repair this problem were just arising in my mind.

We had the exact same problem with our 5-burner Thermador clicking continuously (until power unplugged).  And this also occured after an over-zealous cleaning.  I tried cleaning carefully around the burners, and ignitors carefully, but nothing would help. 
Even after 24 hours, plugging in the power would start the clicking again immediately.  My wife admitted she had maybe used too much water, so we guessed it was a moisture problem below the cooktop surface.  I removed the control knows, and carefully pried up the protective ring below each knob so I could see the controls below.  I cleaned off the obvious crud around the controls, and then put a small ceramic fan heater over two of the holes, and turned it on high.  Hot air blowing back out the other 3 holes.
After about 20-30 minutes of hot air... success!... everything is good now.
Have to give my wife credit for thinking of the heater... I was ready to pull the whole thing out and take it apart.

Thaks for sharing this, it worked for me too. The Hair drier is a smart solution.

The hairdryer trick really works! I'd been a bit enthusistic with my cleaing and mustv'e got moisture in there. Thank you for the tip!

Thank god for the internet and thank god for hairdryers. I had the same problem. Was very scary. All sorted now