Recent content by roaring51

Oh DP. You are without doubt the Guru of all that is common sense. How I long to spend an evening with you drinking real ale, in our Aran cardigans, listening to your endless tales of how you would sort the world out if only you were globle presisdent! Yes it is my boiler, so with regards to...

I've got a cousin called Lawrence. No one can stand him either. Thanks for your input, but I'm a bit busy getting back to people that are genuinely trying to help. So s.o.r.r.y l.a.w.r.e.n.c.e got to go, because if all else fails, then yes I'll have to get a boiler engineer in preferably one...

ps but there's no clicking from the ignitor

Tell me about it ! It's amazing what you'll pay when your desperate. The fan starts up when I run the hot tap and seems to run freely enough. :cry:

Thanks Red_Man. I'm not at the property at the moment. But I 'll check it in the morning, to see if it's burn this one out, I hope not as the bloody thing cost me £180. any ideas which component It's likely to be or what process of elimination I can try to find out

No I'm not gas registered, but I'm a fully qualified vehcle electrician, have worked on air conditioning systems and had 20 years of experiance in the building trade including a lot of plumbing and electrics and never had a disarster. I replace the PCB because it had wopping great burn mark in...

Hi Red_man. Thanks for getting back I'm getting power to it, I've pushed the pressure up to about 1.5 bar and held the rest button down for 10 seconds as it says' in the fault finding guide but still no fire up when I run the hot tap or turn the thermostat up. :roll:

Just replaced the PCB on a potterton combi 80. It fired up and ran perfectly for 3 hours but has now gone back to not firing. The original PCB was the type with resistors etc and the new one is the one with the micro processor. Does anyone have any ideas or knows of the new ones being...