refrigerator won't light on propane

[Bud]

Originally Posted by gklugie

This may sound odd, but having the same intermittent lighting problem, I found a trick that works 9 out of 10 times. Light your stove burner, and if you can, turn on your furnace. This seemingly gets propane flowing past the refrigerator, and the fridge lights right up.

Sure you that really needed to light the stove or just turn it on?

Bud

[Mfturner]

In my case you needed gas flowing, so yes, I lit the stove.

[booster]

It could possible be a lazy regulator at the tank that is not reacting to the very slow and low flow of the pilot lighting for the frig, but once there is a larger draw on it by the stove, it opens up and functions normally after that.

I have seen this happen on compressed air regulators and also on acetylene regulators, where I would have to turn them up to a higher pressure and then back down to where I wanted them if they had been sitting a while, or put a big draw on them for a bit to get them to open.