Hi,
I have a Baxi Luna 24 Fi 1.20 boiler, it's known in the UK as a Alpha 240 I'm told.
It probably needs replacing but don't exactly have the funds to replace and hoping to repair.
The problem.
If it's been shut off for a few hours and I turn it on, it will fires up for few minutes, the burners go out and water continues to be circulate around a few minutes later it will fire up again for maybe a minute max then shut off, at this point the orange neon light comes on.
It must then be powered off for 15 minutes before it will power on again.
If it's been powered off for half hour and I turn it onto hot water only, it will fire up and fill about 1/5 of the bath before shutting down and the orange neon light comes on.
I've had a few different service people come out and try find a problem but had no luck.
Most people in the area have these boilers if they haven't been replaced already, I happen to get one that was being replaced to use for parts.
My boiler has had many parts replaced that didn't look to good but we can't find the problem.
The expansion tank on the back of the boiler is no good, but we added an external expansion tank to the return CH pipe, I think we read up on that in here or another forum. This stopped the pressure gauge from climbing so high, but I'm wondering if it should be hooked up to where the original expansion tank/vessel is.
The air pressure switch has been replaced and checked and doesn't appear to be problem. The fan looks ok but I'm wondering if I should have someone come in and replace with another one I have.
The circuit boards have been switched over with another old one, so not sure if that board had a problem too.
During the summer the CH is turned off or the thermostat is turned down low (i forget how we had it set) , but strangely we could fill bath etc just fine, the problems seems to go away, even in Oct when the CH started to come as it got colder it was working fine.
It's almost like once the temp out side get to a low point it starts acting up.
I should also add that whoever installed these units and pipe work for the baseboards didn't do a good job either. Pipes upstairs get hot water through them relatively fast, but our main floor has a hard time, the far room only gets faintly warm. Granted the boiler only runs for few minutes.
Any advice or ideas that you can offer on fixing or finding this problem is greatly appreciated.
I have a Baxi Luna 24 Fi 1.20 boiler, it's known in the UK as a Alpha 240 I'm told.
It probably needs replacing but don't exactly have the funds to replace and hoping to repair.
The problem.
If it's been shut off for a few hours and I turn it on, it will fires up for few minutes, the burners go out and water continues to be circulate around a few minutes later it will fire up again for maybe a minute max then shut off, at this point the orange neon light comes on.
It must then be powered off for 15 minutes before it will power on again.
If it's been powered off for half hour and I turn it onto hot water only, it will fire up and fill about 1/5 of the bath before shutting down and the orange neon light comes on.
I've had a few different service people come out and try find a problem but had no luck.
Most people in the area have these boilers if they haven't been replaced already, I happen to get one that was being replaced to use for parts.
My boiler has had many parts replaced that didn't look to good but we can't find the problem.
The expansion tank on the back of the boiler is no good, but we added an external expansion tank to the return CH pipe, I think we read up on that in here or another forum. This stopped the pressure gauge from climbing so high, but I'm wondering if it should be hooked up to where the original expansion tank/vessel is.
The air pressure switch has been replaced and checked and doesn't appear to be problem. The fan looks ok but I'm wondering if I should have someone come in and replace with another one I have.
The circuit boards have been switched over with another old one, so not sure if that board had a problem too.
During the summer the CH is turned off or the thermostat is turned down low (i forget how we had it set) , but strangely we could fill bath etc just fine, the problems seems to go away, even in Oct when the CH started to come as it got colder it was working fine.
It's almost like once the temp out side get to a low point it starts acting up.
I should also add that whoever installed these units and pipe work for the baseboards didn't do a good job either. Pipes upstairs get hot water through them relatively fast, but our main floor has a hard time, the far room only gets faintly warm. Granted the boiler only runs for few minutes.
Any advice or ideas that you can offer on fixing or finding this problem is greatly appreciated.
