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title: "A DCS Cooktop That Clicks After the Burner Is Already Lit"
description: "A DCS cooktop igniter keeps clicking after the burner lights, or with everything off. Both are the switch behind the dial, and moisture is the usual reason."
url: "https://dcsmiami.support/blog/dcs-cooktop-igniter-keeps-clicking/"
date_modified: "2026-09-14"
Category: "Common Problems"
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# A DCS Cooktop That Clicks After the Burner Is Already Lit

There are two complaints here and they sound identical when described over a telephone. Separating them takes one look at the burner.

## DCS cooktop igniter keeps clicking: the question that splits it

Light the burner and watch. Does the clicking stop?

**It stops.** The ignition is doing precisely its job: spark until there is flame, then stop. Nothing about that needs fixing.

**It carries on.** The module is still being asked to spark by a burner that is already lit, which means something upstream has not noticed. That is the switch behind the dial.

**It clicks with everything off.** Same problem, further along. The module is being asked to spark by a cooktop nobody is using.

## Why moisture does this

The switches sit behind the dials in a bank, and the electrodes sit in housings on the cooking surface. Both are places water can reach during an enthusiastic clean, and neither is designed to be wet.

A damp switch conducts where it should not. The control reads that as a dial being turned, starts the module, and keeps it running. From outside it looks like an electrical failure. It is a puddle.

This is why the honest first advice is to wait. A day or two in a warm kitchen and a good share of these stop on their own, and we would rather say so than charge for a visit that dries something out.

## When it is not moisture

If it has been clicking for a week with no spill behind it, the switch has failed rather than got wet. That is a part and a modest one, and it is worth doing rather than living with — a module running continuously wears out, and it is the more expensive component of the two.

## The thing worth checking while you are there

Lift each burner cap and set it down flat and square. A cap sitting slightly proud, or resting on a crumb, holds the flame away from the electrode. On controls that watch for flame this can keep the sparking going even though the burner is lit, and it costs nothing to rule out.

## What this is not

It is not the electrode, and it is not the module. Both are working — that is what the clicking proves. Replacing either is the most common wasted part on this complaint, and the reason is simply that the clicking sounds like the ignition and the ignition is where people look.

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