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Gas Dryer heat is sporadic.

Hello. First of all I know nothing about appliance but what I’ve picked up on YouTube during this experience.

My dryer turns on.

It glows.

The flame turns on.

The flame shuts off after a while.

It glows again.

Flame never comes back on even if i restart the cycle from scratch.

I went out and purchased a multimeter and followed the steps to test all the thermostats and what have you . Everything tested ok.

I replaced both solenoids. (got ripped off too by Cagle’s appliance $36!)

I don’t know what else to do and could use some help. I don’t want to just keep buying parts the other items like the gas valve and timer...may as well buy a new dryer if I’m spending hundreds.

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Gas Valve Solenoid

Gas dryers have two or more gas valve solenoid coils. The gas valve solenoids open the gas valve ports to allow gas to flow into the burner assembly. If a gas valve solenoid fails, the dryer won’t heat. To determine if one or more of the gas valve solenoids has failed, check the igniter. If the igniter glows and goes out but does not ignite the gas, the gas valve solenoid is defective. If one or more of the gas valve coils are defective, we recommend that you replace them as a set.

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What if you replaced them both and still same thing? I replaced solenoids, igniter and flame sensors. Igniter glows for a few seconds then goes out. A little less than a minute later igniter will cycle again.

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