Boy, that is quite a story.  I can't believe that you could heat up that
cable enough to start a fire (you must have been doing some fearless
pumping on that ignition button), much less to transfer ignition to some
other part of the van.  It is true that the wire to the combustion chamber,
if the insulation on the wire is cracked,  will short out to the back of
the frig and prevent ignition of the propane (I had that problem and
finally found the short at night), but start a fire, I don't think so.  And
even if a fire started at that location, how in the hell would you put it
out???  It takes me the better part of an hour to get the damn frig out to
get access to that space.  This is an amazing, almost haunted tale!!
Don

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:46:31 -0500
From: Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Subject: Fridge sparker
Okay, if you've been following my tale, back in August I had an
unusual fire in my Westy, the cable to the sparker in the combustion
chamber of the fridge, caught fire. Fortunately I extingushed this
very quickly and there was no damage beyond the insulation of the wire.
I originally tried to get the replacement from an authorized Dometic
repair place. That fell through. Then (after one of our vendors
mentioned the part number) I ordered a replacement through one of our
online vendors.
On Saturday it finally arrived. I put it in and the fridge fired
right up, without any problems or quirks. I wonder now about other
folks with lighting problems with their fridges, and wonder if a new
sparker would help them.