From: me@here.edu   
      
   > "danny burstein"  wrote in message news:ka2fgk$6t4$1@reader1.panix.com...   
   >   
   > But... they also tend to use electrically heated "glow plates"   
   > in the oven to ignite the gas. And these stay on the during the   
   > entire "lit up" cycle..   
      
   > Add in another 500 watts there...   
      
   Yep, we had just such an oven in our gas range when we lived in a trailer   
   house, HSI wired in series with a thermal gas valve, I hated it because of   
   how long it took for the thing to heat up or cool down and turn on and off   
   the burner, and if the HSI burns out the oven is DOA. I much prefer indirect   
   spark ovens where the spark lights a pilot and the pilot lights the main   
   burner, they cycle faster and can be lit manually if the power is out or the   
   sparker fails.   
      
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