Changed an oven ignitor, reason for changing was supposedly a weak ignitor. (Claimed it wasn't heating up as fast and cooking time takes much longer).
I've changed the ignitors on that oven quite often, in my opinion it's an old oven and I would put it out for the sanitation.
But being that it's not mine I have the ability of a suggestion and not much more!
Now the oven ignitor looks perfect, so to double check that I took two different multi meters, a cheap $10 one from Craftsman and then a more expensive one from Greenlee and got the same results of 245 ohms of resistance.
Now being that I'm not sure what the normal ohms of resistance is supposed to be, I did a quick Google search with results showing 3.2-3.6 is the normal amount. Not exactly sure how to get those numbers and then the other results that turned up were 40-400 or 70-180, which were possible to achieve.
With lot's of mixed reports, i took it to the next level and tested with my two multi meters once again another 4 brand new Oven ignitors and came back with results of
109, 98, 225 and lastly from all 4, a real OEM GE ignitor which came back with 51 ohms of resistance, yes the other three were knock-offs for a fraction of the price of a real GE ignitor.
So hoping I can find a someone here who is familiar with the correct range of ohms of resistance for a working igniter?
Meaning what display should I find on my multimeter for a week igniter?
TIA.