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Problem solved....I bought an £8 transducer from China, increased the depth of water in the sump, drilled the sump to provide an exit route for the transduvcer's cable, hard wired the transducer's mains adapter into a switched part of the fire's loom. The fire now works perfectly and performs...

Reading all your comments has been a great incentive for me to fix my own 10 year old Optimyst. I have done lots of testing over the past few days and have determined that my fire's problem (the mist lights, fan cut-out after a few minutes and then start-up again if I leave the thing turned on)...

??? Was it a fault on the PCB?

David . . . did this fix your problems? Tony

Update: I have now stripped the fire down to check for burned connections . . . and found none. I have also exchanged the crubling bulb-holders for better quality ones - but the problem persists The symptoms point to a sensor on the PCB having become faulty - although I have no way to check...

Hi George, I saw your post on diynot.com and wondered if you ever found a cure for your OptiMyst's cutting-out problem. I ask because my own Optimyst is now doing eactly the same as yours was doing . . . how did you fix yours? Best Wishes, Tony

Hi Keith, I saw your post on diynot.com and wondered if you ever found a cure for your OptiMyst's cutting-out problem. I ask because my own Optimyst is now doing eactly the same as yours was doing . . . how did you fix yours? Best Wishes, Tony

I am posting this because I am having problems which seem slightly different from all other Optimyst problems I've read about here My Fire is a 10-year-old Charlotte CRT20BR and has the blue tank and grey sump, and it is only ever used for the visual effect, never for heating. In all those...

Hi Alistair, I wonder if you are able to help me with a problem concerning my Dimplex Optimyst? Please let me know if this is something you still do. Thanks, Tony

Hi Keith - Your Optimyst problem sounds exactly the same as my own . . . did you find a cure? Thanks, Tony

Thanks for all of your comments Despite you identifying the boiler for me, i have been unable to find a manual, so I'm still struggling to understand how to make all but the obvious and very basic adjustments to the boiler. However, things have now moved-on a little . . . My heating engineer...

My Valor central heating boiler, which came with the 1960's house I bought 5 years ago, decided to "play-up" 10 days ago What happens is that initially the boiler works perfectly, with the rads getting very hot (a little too hot to my mind as the rads smell as if the paint is burning - which...