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Yes, very good, folks, but I thought this was a DIY support forum, not a place for taking pot shots at someone with a broken boiler in the snow. Is it feasible to power up the PCB with some of the other systems unplugged to see which is causing the excess power drain? eg power it up with fan...

Would that I had known that when it was bought! The sad thing is that the unit is very clean, virtually no corrosion, no sign of any leakage of any sort from any component. It's certainly cleaner than my PC and most HiFi components I have opened up. The worst degradation was the presence...

Have an Ideal Icos m3080 with no internal pump (only external) It had failed with L8 code. FanDC volts were low, so PCB needed replacing. Have bought refurbed PCB. Also thought it best to get new fan as I read here that these can be an issue, taking down the PCB. New fan resistance 106...

I think you've missed much of the point of my post. Whether I had an annual plan with Homeserve is not the point. I gleaned the advice about Homeserve quoting fixed prices for specific boiler repairs (without a service plan) from a (perfectly reasonable) thread on this forum. The Homeserve...

A quick post as I'd arrived here via a Google search which flagged up the forum posts on how to fix an Ideal (Icos 3080) boiler (with an L8 fault code). Mine was fitted in the winter of 2002. The advice I found in the threads is good, but a couple of points need highlighting/updating for...