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My dryer looses heat & ignition. The igniter glows and then the fire box ignites. Then after about 5 minutes the fire box goes cold. After letting it cool for about 10 minutes it will start up again. When it will not lite, the igniter glows and after a few seconds I hear the click of a solenoid and then nothing. Do I have bad coils or a bad gas valve? The coils are hot. Thanks, David
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if you hear the valve clicking but no gas the valve is bad.when the burner lights theres a probe that senses that it is lit and sends a microvoltage back to the controller to tell its lit.check to make sure all ground wires are grounded to a clean metal surface.
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Hi, Could be a coil...but I have learned that it usually is the ignitor...
If you are having problems with your gas dryer not heating
the most common problem is that the ignitor goes bad. Even though it glows
sometimes it is still not working properly.
if you dryer is gas check out this gas no heat tip....
If you have an electric dryer, you can have many different
things that can go wrong causing the dryer not to heat.
with front off it will short cycle. If ignitor glows and then goes out without lighting, you have bad burner coils. The 2 black round things on burner assembly. Unplug unit then unplug coils and remove bracket with 2 screws. install coils and test.
bad gas coils located on top of the gas valve.when the coils are on there way out they will do this,when they heat up they fail,when the dryer and the coils cool down they will fire.they let the gas in and the ignitor ignites the flame after 15 to 30 minutes they fail.let me know how you make out
does the igniter glow white or orange? if it is orange you need to replace it. has to be white hot to ignite. if the igniter is white it could be the coils not opening the gas valve all the time - an intermittent problem.
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