Weird pilot light behavior

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dalangdon

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About a week ago I noticed that the Fabulous 400 was a bit smelly (not like unburned natural gas, but more like the faint smell you get when the thing has been running for a long time) I did some snooping around and noticed that the pilots for the oven and broiler were quite high. I turned them down and have kept an eagle eye on it since then, and everything seems to have returned to normal. I ran both the broiler and oven last night for several hours with no issues, so I'm assuming whatever it was has remedied itself. But I wanted to check in and see if you guys had any thoughts. I'd hate for the thing to blow up or burn down the old home place.

What was weird was that the burner pilots were fine, so I don't know if it was a pressure change in the gas line or something like that. We did have to have some gas work done to hook up the tankless heater. Could that have affected it in some manner?
 
Did your meter or main pressure regulator (near the meter) get swapped-out for ones with greater ability to handle large demand?

Perhaps the gas-line that branches off to become the stove feed increased in diameter?
 
also

check in to what your gas main is made out of... the houses in my neighborhood were all originally supplied with copper gas lines, which now some 35 years later are needing replacement.
Perhaps there was stuff in the main that shifted or moved, allowing for an increase in pressure?
 

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