Kitchen Gas Appliances - Oven Ignition Problem

I have a GE gas stove. All four range top burners ignite and work well. The oven does not. The pilot is lit. I hear a clicking when turning the control knob to ignite, but the oven does not ignite the gas. Is the ignition system faulty. Are there seperate ignition systems for the burners and oven.
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Slightly confused here. If the ignition system is a hot surface glow ignitor, there will not be a pilot nor any clicking at the pilot assembly.

If the ignition system is a sparking device that lites a pilot so there is a pilot flame you can see once it is lit, than the appliance has a pilot lit by a sparking device and you will hear a clicking but there will not a constant burning pilot when the oven is turned off.

Hope this makes sense to you. I need to know which type of ignition system the oven really has. I suspect the oven does have a sparking type ignition system but I could be incorrect. Kindly advise.

There may or may not be seperate ignition devices. Most likely not. Some cooking stoves or ranges are wired so all the sparkers operate when the ovens sparker is in operation. The sparking stops once the ovens pilot is lit.

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I do have a spark ingnition device. The pilot flame is not constantly burning. I provided the wrong information. When I turn the valve to ignite on the front of the stove I hear a clicking, but the oven fails to burn.

Hello: johnssc

Thanks for providing the updated additional information. Appreciated.

The sparker which is attempt to light the ovens pilot flame may not be doing so for any one of severals reasons.

The pilot assembly could be dusty or dirty with debris.
The pilots orifice could be blocked or restricted.
The instensity of the spark may be too weak to ignite the gas.
The alignment of the assembly may be out of adjustment.
The ovens thermostat or gas valve which supplies the gas to the pilot assembly may be defective or restricted, etc.

Correcting a restriction of pilot flow gas may require you to disassemble the pilot assembly. Compressed canned air also works and may resolve the problem of removing dust and lint without disassembling the pilot assembly.

Read the prior topics within this forum on this subject of ovens and or oven burners and the replies offered. Doing so will provide you with additional helpful information, suggestions and or advice.

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