Pressure gauge not reading correct

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Have a Vokera boiler on a sealed system. the gauge on the boiler reads different than the gauge at the filling point (cylinder, upstairs). I currently have a leak which I am in the process of fixing and I need to top up regurily, if the boiler is at 1 bar and will not light then I top up to 2 bar at the hot water cylinder and the gauge there reacts straight away but the boiler gauge does not change, maybe 24hrs later it will have moved .2 of a bar. Is this gauge faulty?
 
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When just topped up the gauge at the cylinder will be 2 bar while the boiler will be at 1 bar and will not move much (maybe .2) in 24 hrs
 
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Pump can change the reading up to about .5, but usually no more than about .3.
Every meter vertical difference between the 2 accounts for 0.1
Neither gauge is calibrated so could easily be out 0.2 - 0.3 each
 

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