ionisiation?

sorry to bring this back up again i had got this working but its extremely unstable as there is not much movement on the arduino, i was using 1500k resistor to even get it to work i cant seem to add any more than that or it seems to go the other way so i dont know how else we could make this work more reliably and give us more of a range on the arduino
i measured the resistance of the probe and flame was 1400k and my supply voltage i was running 17.11 and im getting back on the other end 1.65V so hell of a drop?