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Subject:Re: Dometic Piezo Electric
From:Paul Connelly
Date:Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:53:33 -0600

Now wait a minute...

I see Go Westy has the Piezo Electric "Switch" (push button part) - I
thought that the part that would need replaced would be the "Igniter wire"
that actually goes into the "combustion chamber", but thinking about it, I
suppose that is just a wire and piece of metal to allow the charge to create
a spark. So I am just getting a weak charge from the "switch" part - does
that make sense?

TIA

Cheers, Paul.
1986 Syncro Westy - Hummingbird

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:

> Last time I had to get one I found out that you can't get it from "normal"
> Dometic suppliers. On the other paw it can be had from our traditional
> vendors. I think I got it from GoWesty.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Paul Connelly <vanagonhummingbird@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi All,
>>
>> I'm sure this has been done before somewhere sometime, but I couldn't find
>> it in the archives. The old dometic has been getting more finicky to light
>> lately on propane, so stripped it out today and did a clean up/out, and I
>> am
>> getting a really weak spark from the piezo electric for the pilot light.
>> It
>> has to be only a mm or so from the gas feed and even then the first spark
>> has a little meat to it after that its weak or nothing at all.
>>
>> Question is - is that a "standard part" that I get get somewhere, or is it
>> dometic specific, and anyone know of a supplier???
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Cheers, Paul.
>> 1986 Syncro Westy - Hummingbird
>>
>