GE Range Igniter Glow Bar (WB18X39634)

The GE Range Igniter Glow Bar is the component in your gas range or dual fuel range that lights the oven burner each time you start a bake or broil cycle. It works by heating up to an extreme temperature that both ignites the gas and signals the gas valve to open, allowing fuel to flow and the burner to light. Without a functioning igniter glow bar, the oven cannot reach the heat needed to open the valve and sustain a flame.

The GE Range Igniter Glow Bar commonly fails after years of repeated heating and cooling cycles, which cause the element to weaken, crack, or burn out entirely. It can also degrade from exposure to grease, moisture, or power surges, and a weakened igniter that glows but never gets hot enough will prevent the gas valve from opening even if the igniter appears to be working.

These symptoms can help you determine if the igniter glow bar is the source of your oven trouble:

- Oven does not heat up even though the igniter appears to glow

- Igniter glows orange but takes longer than 90 seconds to light the burner

- Oven burner never ignites and no flame appears

- Igniter does not glow at all when the oven is turned on

- Oven shuts off mid-cycle and will not relight

- Gas smell without ignition when attempting to use the oven