Myson Apollo boiler timer setting

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• 15 Sep 2006

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Just moved into a new house and it has one of these boilers (myson apollo) in it with a dial timer that you pull.

Its a dial where you pull tabs and it has a thermoastat on High & 0 & Low.

Does each tab that you pull set a start and stop point or does it amount to 15mins of time ? Does pulling the tabs mean it on or is it when its not pulled that it means the boilers on ?

Also does it need to be in a high / low thermastat setting or can it be left in the 0 setting ?

 

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• 15 Sep 2006

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Try thermostat in "low" (in "0" it won't come on to heat your HW even).

Should be easy to work out what the tabs do once you get the boiler on - turn the knob manually. I think each one gives you 15 mins on.

 

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Thanks Chris.

 

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• 15 Sep 2006

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high setting in winter , low setting in summer (when using hot water only) BUT it is an old boiler and the high setting can cause the boiler to overheat if it does just use the low setting it just takes a little longer to heat up
i have several of these to look after and at least half can only run on low setting

 

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• 16 Sep 2006

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Hmm well I set the tabs for 2 hours of hot water, had a shower (works off the boiler) and it didnt appear to have worked.. however after I had the shower the boiler was on but it wasnt during its set timer period.

Thermostat in action I think.

Is my timer busted ? Surley it shouldnt come on outside the tabs period.

It was so much easier in my old house with my digital timers....