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alasdairc
Hello,
Looking for a advice/someone in Glasgow who can put the time and energy into troubleshooting what is causing a Vokera Maxin 28e to lockout. We don't have the money to replace this boiler, and have already dealt with two engineers who were unable/unwilling to troubleshoot this. Both just tried to sell us a new boiler. We will probably sell this house in the next year, parts are cheap and so would rather pay for labour rather than a whole new unit.
Now and again the boiler goes into lockout. Fan and pump continue running, it's the ignition that fails.
I've sat with the manual and followed the troubleshooting flowchart. 240v is present at the ignition box on the pins specified. The last step is 'is the lockout switch illuminated, press to reset'. Not very helpful.
I even bought a second hand PCB, replaced it, which worked for a day with no lockouts but then failed permanently (pump on but fan dead). I'm handy with plumbing and electrics, but not qualified with gas.
What I don't understand is whether the only approach is to replace each part one by one until the fault is fixed or there is a more direct approach to pin-point what is going wrong.
Before the lockouts started happening, in the kitchen the tap would sometimes run cold, only way to get hot water would be to close the tap,
Looking for a advice/someone in Glasgow who can put the time and energy into troubleshooting what is causing a Vokera Maxin 28e to lockout. We don't have the money to replace this boiler, and have already dealt with two engineers who were unable/unwilling to troubleshoot this. Both just tried to sell us a new boiler. We will probably sell this house in the next year, parts are cheap and so would rather pay for labour rather than a whole new unit.
Now and again the boiler goes into lockout. Fan and pump continue running, it's the ignition that fails.
I've sat with the manual and followed the troubleshooting flowchart. 240v is present at the ignition box on the pins specified. The last step is 'is the lockout switch illuminated, press to reset'. Not very helpful.
I even bought a second hand PCB, replaced it, which worked for a day with no lockouts but then failed permanently (pump on but fan dead). I'm handy with plumbing and electrics, but not qualified with gas.
What I don't understand is whether the only approach is to replace each part one by one until the fault is fixed or there is a more direct approach to pin-point what is going wrong.
Before the lockouts started happening, in the kitchen the tap would sometimes run cold, only way to get hot water would be to close the tap,
