Mine has been great, but on the other hand I don't have that much time on it yet. You saw the video of Jim Hillers, the Rabbit in his model is the very one he wrote the article in the AMA magazine about earlier this year. Jim has almost 25 hours on his with no ceramic igniter issues.

Also think about this, if you have any Natural gas appliances (Hot water tank, Cloths dryer, Furnace / Boiler) most all of these appliances now a days use a ceramic igniter; I have a Maytag dryer and it has be going for over 25 years on the original ceramic igniter.

I'm sure you will always find a few that will fail but the reliability in general is very good. Besides the igniter is covered under the LTW... I know that if you are at the field and it fails you will say the the LTW doesn't help...but hey you can always light her off from the tail pipe in a pinch.