High performance burner slow to light

After a year of use, my middle (largest) burner is slow to light, sometimes not lighting at all. The ignitor clicks vigorously but often is not able to light the burner. I can manually light the burner with a match so there is gas coming thru. The other burners light fine. Also I'm on LP.

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Replace that ignitor on that burner only. Not drawing enough amps to spark properly.

Posted on Oct 29, 2008

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