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The water heater and stove should work in a power outage. Gas water heaters shouldn't use any electric, and stoves are easily lit with a match or lighter.
by H1Supreme 5y ago
The water heater and stove should work in a power outage. Gas water heaters shouldn't use any electric, and stoves are easily lit with a match or lighter.
- don-code 5y agoMy parents thought this as well, but it turns out their new gas stove has a safety feature which prevents this. If there's no electricity, a solenoid doesn't engage when you turn the knob, which in turn doesn't allow any gas through to the range. I'm assuming any modern gas water heater is in a similar boat, with an electric starter instead of a pilot light - and it's much more difficult/annoying to light a water heater than a stove with a match.
- quesera 5y agoGas water heaters do not require electric power. There are no wires to connect. The spark to light the pilot is a piezoelectric thing, manually operated. Newer models (less than ~15 years?) have a control board which is probably mostly mechanical, but does have a flashing LED. I assume that whatever drives the electronics is charged/powered by something that works off the differential of temperature in the chamber vs outside.