Recent content by smiffybear

Thank you for the advice John. Typically because I have been able to restart it by pressing the reset button a couple of times and as the sun has been out 8) I have yet to revisit the test on the motor! I hopefully will get to it at the weekend so will let you know. smiffybear

Hello, Well I did fit a new photocell, about 11:30pm one evening and hey presto the next morning at 7am on comes the boiler straight away :D ....a very happy day! Then the next morning....... back to square one, and ever since lockout two or three times before she goes! So I can only...

Thank you for the advice Simon. I know that the service guy we have used has always replaced and invoiced for a new nozzle so I do not suspect he adjusted and left an old one in. smiffybear

Thank you both Tony and John for your input. I monitored the morning start up and would advise my observations. The burner on start up immediately sparked and flamed, I believe I now understand what you meant Tony ref the comment on flame not detected. At that point I turned it off and then...

Tony, I will have to look at this again tomorrow morning at the initial spark, right now its working ok. I am slighlty confused by your term "firing up but locking out because the flame is not detected", which I am reading as sparking, but not igniting? Excuse my ignorance of your meaning...

Thank you for the very quick reponse. It was last serviced approx. 14 months ago although I did fit a new nozzle a month ago. I do not actually know if it is sparking on initial start, what would you suspect if it did then spark when the reset button is pressed? Would the mixture change between...

Hello, I would appreciate someones advice here if possible? My heatslave 12/14 oil boiler has recently started to go to lockout first thing in the morning. :cry: It then starts when the lockout switch is pressed and runs no problem the rest of the day for both CH and HW when left on. It would...