Why isn't my grill lighting? This is the question that leads most grill owners to the internet when it comes to gas grill ignition. You have to know how it works to know what might be wrong. In this second video of the ignitor series, Grill Girl explains the different types of ignition starters (generators) or ignition modules and talks about the most commons problems with each type.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hey y'all, Grill Girl here! This is the second video in our ignition series and today we're going to talk about where it all starts.
It starts with what we all the ignition module. In most cases, that's going to look something like this. And the only part you're going to see is something that looks like this or round about like that. But what's behind it is this electric module which has these parts here which is where the wires connect in. And, this is going to blow your mind, you can screw this off and behind the button is a battery slot. You have to put a battery in here. The grills that come with batteries are almost doing you a disservice because people don't even know that this is electronic. They don't even know that it ever had a battery. Therefore they don't know that they might need to replace the battery. But! It's super simple. Whenever you have ignition issues with an electronic module that the button's going to look something like this, the very first thing you want to do is screw off this - and the only thing you'll see, because the front plate of the grill is covering all of this stuff - is that. Check that battery. Nine times out of ten, replacing the battery, which either going to be a AA or a AAA, is going to fix your issues. Now, this is not the only type of ignition starter that we see on grills. So we also have technology called piezo ignition which is more of a manual spark. So this is one. Every time I press this button, it's creating a spark. You can't see the spark because it doesn't have anywhere to go. If I was holding this really close to metal, you might be able to see the spark jump from the tip of this to the metal. Which is how it works on the other side, but we'll talk about that in another video. So, you might have some thing that looks like this. This is a little but more old fashioned. So, these grills are being seen less and less but this technology is still being used. The main place that it's being used is in the grills where when you turn the knob, it clicks. When you hear that click, if you don't have a button like this with a battery and you only have a knob, most likely, you have a piezo technology behind that knob. When you physically turn the knob and you hear that "click," that is it creating the spark. This is why you might have to turn it off, turn it back on again to click it to see if you can get the burner to light if it's not lighting exactly. In this style of piezo, this is called a rotary. So you can hear it. You can hear it click, just like that. And that's what it sounds like. This one takes wires and then goes to each burner but the ones on grills that are being sold today, most of them just have every single burner -or every single knob is another way to think of it, has its own knob with the piezo technology behind it. So, that's what you're looking at. If you have piezo instead of electronic, there's no battery to change here. So, there's something else going on that we'll have to dig a little bit deeper. But that is pretty much all you need to know about ignition modules. If you don't have an issue with the battery, other things you can look at, and this will require you getting behind the grill, but you can find the wire is commonly the easiest part of the ignition. Aside from the button you can see on the front, the wire behind the face plate is going to be the easiest way to locate your ignition. So, you can follow the wires to a module that looks like this and you can check these little ports here. Make sure that there's not corrosion or no grease build-up. That's. not going to be a super common problem but it's always something you can check. If you have no issues with the way that these are looking and they're not corroded or have any build-up. If you've check your battery and that's fine, if it's not physically cracked or broken open. If everything pretty much looks good, it's probably going to be a problem somewhere else along the line. We'll talk about that on our next video.
One thing I forgot to mention: The sound "click click" is evidence of the spark creation. You can hear it on electronic and piezo modules. If you do not hear a "click" even with a fresh battery, your module has an internal problem -- time to replace.
8 мар 2021
