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One Cooktop Burner Has No Spark
When one burner on a Wolf gas cooktop or rangetop stays silent while the others click, power is reaching the top and the fault sits at that burner.
| If you see | And | Then | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| One burner silent, the others click | It was cleaned, or caught a spill, within the last day | Leave it until it is completely dry; a hair dryer on a low setting speeds that up. Then try the knob again. | Safe to wait |
| One burner silent, the others click | Burnt-on food crusts the electrode beside that burner | With the top cold, brush the electrode with a soft, dry toothbrush and work a scouring pad through the gap between it and the burner. | Safe to wait |
| One burner silent, the others click | Its cap is off-centre, or its knob stays pressed in | Set the cap flat and centred, then push the knob in and let go until it springs back. | Safe to wait |
| No burner clicks at all | It started straight after a boil-over | Treat it as wet ignition across the whole top rather than one dead burner. Next signal: Every igniter dead after a boil-over | Safe to wait |
| Still silent once dry, clean and seated | Or its electrode is chipped or cracked | That burner's electrode, its wire or the switch behind its knob has failed. Use the other burners until the visit. | Call today |
If that one burner stays silent after drying, cleaning and reseating, call Redmond Wolf Repair on (425) 905-2822 and keep cooking on the burners that still light.
Power is already ruled out
Wolf’s first question for a burner that will not light is whether anything sparks at all, because sparking shows the ignition has power. Yours does, so the breaker and the supply can be set aside, and the search narrows to one burner: its cap, its electrode and the switch behind its knob.
Lighting it with a lighter
Wolf’s gas cooktop guide describes lighting a surface burner by hand, knob at HI, with a multi-purpose lighter, and it gives that for a power outage. With other burners still working, we would cook on those rather than make a hand-lit burner the routine while the repair is booked.