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The electronic ballast in a relatively modern weatherproof twin T8 4ft tube housed in my garage has blown (one of the resistors on the pcb has burnt and the fuse link next to the supply on the board has blown - it made an impressive bang when I turned it on). Would welcome some advice on what...

Yes photocell is spotlessly clean. I don't have a gauge or the hands-on skills to follow the rest of your suggestions, I have a reliable engineer that does the annual service, I'll have to admit defeat and hand over to him. Bit ironic, I only cleaned out the woodburner in the lounge couple...

Hi Yes, burner motor runs, overheat stat not lit, pressed burner control reset. It seems to attempt a restart every 20 seconds or so, each time there is a slight shake of the flexible flue pipe. thanks

hi My boiler has stopped igniting, I've checked the tank and there's plenty of oil (several inches). Have checked the and loosened bleed screw inside the boiler and oil is flowing freely. When powered, the pump in the boiler switches on and it just makes repeated clicking sound as though it...

Thanks for your advice. I removed and cleaned the filter, there was a small amount crud around it, cleaned it and refitted. Also removed the heater assembly, didn't descale as looking inside I didn't see any sign of scale build up. However the top of the heater where the terminals and safety...

Hi My 8 year old Mira sport is running hot then cold then hot. It started doing it about a week ago very intermittently but now it is almost a continuous hot/cold/hot cycle from switching it on. Living in a hard water area I suspect it may be limescale build up so was trying to remove the...

Hi The ST799 controller on my heating/hotwater has become very intermittent. It will run for around ten minutes (either HW or CH) and then the display goes blank and the boiler turns off. If I press the reset button it will run again for a few minutes then turn off again. I've Googled around...

well that didn't last long :( Same fault occurred today RCD tripping but ok if disconnect heater. Removed new element and noticed two notches on it, grabbed the original out of the bin and sure enough it had the same and I hadn't noticed it before - doh! Checked in the element slot while...

thanks for your help and suggestions guys esp. rocks1 you saved me a lot of time. New element in, gave it a thorough clean whilst waiting for part, reassembled this morning and running fine and no leaks :) rgds Bob

element measures 25 Ohm which from what I've read up on is about ok, however each leg to Earth is 600KOhm am I correct in thinking this should not even give a reading? it was the RCd being tripped so assume this is the Earth leakage its tripping to? No way would that rubber seal come back out...

Thanks for the disassembly info, noisy? hmm it may well be, the last spin was louder than usual but then it was pretty much full with bedsheets and duvet cover and I thought at the time it was just unbalanced load in the drum. The sheets and duvet cover though had patches of dirt/grit on it...

Hi This old workhorse has served me well for years but is now tripping the house RCD. I've narrowed it down to the heater element by disconnecting the wires I can see running down to the bottom of the drum. I still haven't seen sight of the element terminals yet. I can now run the machine on...