Not exactly motorsports, but i am confident someone here can help.
The house has an older viking stove. vgic485-gq with the auto sparking burner igniters that self shut off when it lights.
Short backstory that may or may not applyi: we had a baby sitter who cooked a frozen pizza in the oven. The good thing was that she tried to shut the oven off. The bad thing was that instead of turning it opposite of on to off, she kept turning it higher and forced it until the knob pointed to the off. But for 45 minutes it was blasting on high. We got home and immediately knew something was wrong: the house was super hot and strange noises were coming from the stove.
It melted the housing to the spark module but it still worked fine. I did have some wiring issue later on where some of the wires that were on that side of the oven had been compromised and i had to run some new wires.
Recently, the igniters on that side stopped working. I assumed it was the module. I ordered a new one and it would spark once or twice whenever i plugged it in, which was weird, but the problem was that it won't stop sparking. I tried reversing the output lines as they are apparentliy opposite of the original (now superceded) igniter. no luck. I checked grounds and they are all good.
The company was good and sent me a new unit and it is doing the same thing.
The old unit wouldn't even spark, so i do believe it went bad, but i seem to have another problem. Maybe i had two problems or maybe i just had one that took out the original unit.
It is pretty simple: a neutral, line/hot, ground plus 3 inputs (leaving the 4th unconnected) and 4 outputs (one of which is grounded).
I have made sure that the right burner signal corresponds to the output. i have unplugged every input except one. I have run the ground right to the igniter's base (at the burner). no luck.
Anyone have any ideas what scenario could cause this? i wonder if i have some wires that have finally given up that were damaged initialliy, or perhaps my new wires are bad, but before I go tearing it apart again, i was trying to figure out what would possibly cause this (a signal wire shorting to ground perhaps, or maybe something else....) I'm just not coming up with anything to check.