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Joseph Meehan
 
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Default GE cooktop no spark - spark module or something else?

autonut843 wrote:
Hi,
I have a GE gas cooktop model number JGP636WEV7WW that has not been
sparking for quite a while. Everything is dry and nothing has boiled
over on a long time.

http://www.repairclinic.com/0081.asp?RccPartID=244989

is the spark module and the model number for the Kool Lite Harper
Wyman thing is an exact match.

I can hear it doing the 'tick-tick-tick' thing when the knob is in the
correct position. I've removed the wires to all the burners and I can
get a short 1/8" arc between one of the wires and the metal of the
cooktop.

It sure seems to me that it's the spark module, but before ordering a
$54.70 part, I figured I'd see if anybody else had any other ideas.

How long is the arc on a good one?

Thanks!


It would seem that if you are heating the click click that the spark
module is functioning. It is the spark that makes the noise. Maybe I am
wrong. Have you looked at the point the spark should be made and see if
there is a spark?


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