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Gas dryer runs but no heat. Took it apart cleaned all ducts and lots of years worth of dirt out of entire machine, looks brand new. Tested all components.

Thermal fuse, heat and flame sensors tested good. Timer/heat select switch and ignitor bad so I replaced them with new.Still no flame. Ignitor does'nt even glow. What part controls ignitor and gas valves to produce a flame?

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You did quite a bit of work. One other thing that controls the ignitor is called the flame detector. Its the black box looking thing mounted on the side of the big pipe the flame shoots into. Should be 2 wires going to it. A quick test to see if the ignitor comes on is to tie the 2 wires together. If you see the ignitor come on thats the bad part,

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