The bottom oven of my cooker will light, but the flame is very low and no matter what setting the control is, it will not increase. Help.

Jim Goldsmith

• 2005 Answers
• Posted on Apr 26, 2009

SOURCE: oven lights on low flame but will not come up on

all gas range ovens have a small metal box in the back upper area of the broiler burner; a gas line runs into this box as do two wires; this is a "flame control " gas valve; the way it works is: after the pilot has been lit as you turn the oven temp control a heating element in the box causes a small valve to open allowing a larger amount of gas into the oven burner to ignite the whole burner If you can only get pilot flame on high replace this valve

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Your thermocouple is bad. Your oven has a safety device called a thermocouple. It detects the flame so that when the flame is not present, it will shut off the gas so that you do not have an explosive problem.

When the thermocouple goes bad, it cannot detect the flame, there for the gas will be shut off. Often times it will work okay for a short time, and then go out.

The thermocouple is a thin copper flexable tube that has a prob on one end that sits in front of the pilot light, and the other end screws into the gas valve.

This not a hard part to replace. You just unscrew the old one, take the prob out of the pilot assembly, and then put the new one in with the probe in place, run it back to the valve, and screw it in making sure it is in tightly.

SOURCE: Canon Carrick LPG cooker-failure of

I had the same problem. I solved it by re-attaching a device which had come undone. On the right hand side of the burner is a rod with a metal wire attached. This was lying loose. It should be fixed to a little grey clip which is itself attached to a a piece of metal. By re-fixing the clip and the rod to the clip it solved the problem. Hope this helps. I have photos of how it should look. email [email protected] for a JPG.

SOURCE: My leisure classic 110 gas

It could be the flame failure device our Cannon had the same problem

SOURCE: flame very low in bottom oven

If the flame stays low from the beginning then it will be the flame safety device (fsd) not opening on sensing the flame and will require replacement by a gas certified engineer.