Hi.... I have recently had a problem with my central heating timer and suspect it is the wireless receiver unit which has either failed or has a loose wire but would value opinions if anyone could offer advice...
The initial problem was that I noticed the heating not coming on when I adjusted the thermostat. After investigating and reading the instruction manual, the British Gas WR1 unit seemed to be not behaving as it should. At first, I was able to override the unit by pressing one of the buttons (can't remember which one worked) and then switch off again in the same way but a couple of days later that method stopped working and there were no lights on the WR1 at all unless I switched it off and back on again and then there would be a feint flicker of the red light just briefly after switching on, and then nothing after that.
Following that I tried pairing the thermostat again as per instructions and managed to somehow get the unit back into life with the red light on constantly but still not responding to the thermostat.
What is happening now is that if I press button 2, sometimes the green light will light but will switch off again as soon as I release the button.
I have seen other posts regarding issues with these units but they don't seem to be quite the same as my problem.
I planned to get a heating engineer out when I can conveniently arrange but wondered if it could just be a loose connection on the backplate which I could investigate myself, or if that turns out not to be the case, just replace the unit like for like.
I'm aware that there are regulations covering non-qualified personnel carrying out some of these types of works but at the same time I'm not an idiot and certain tasks are no more dangerous than a non-professional mechanic carrying out repairs to their car.... I would only tackle something that I was 100% confident of doing. i.e. removing the unit and replacing like for like or tightening a loose connection.
Thanks
The initial problem was that I noticed the heating not coming on when I adjusted the thermostat. After investigating and reading the instruction manual, the British Gas WR1 unit seemed to be not behaving as it should. At first, I was able to override the unit by pressing one of the buttons (can't remember which one worked) and then switch off again in the same way but a couple of days later that method stopped working and there were no lights on the WR1 at all unless I switched it off and back on again and then there would be a feint flicker of the red light just briefly after switching on, and then nothing after that.
Following that I tried pairing the thermostat again as per instructions and managed to somehow get the unit back into life with the red light on constantly but still not responding to the thermostat.
What is happening now is that if I press button 2, sometimes the green light will light but will switch off again as soon as I release the button.
I have seen other posts regarding issues with these units but they don't seem to be quite the same as my problem.
I planned to get a heating engineer out when I can conveniently arrange but wondered if it could just be a loose connection on the backplate which I could investigate myself, or if that turns out not to be the case, just replace the unit like for like.
I'm aware that there are regulations covering non-qualified personnel carrying out some of these types of works but at the same time I'm not an idiot and certain tasks are no more dangerous than a non-professional mechanic carrying out repairs to their car.... I would only tackle something that I was 100% confident of doing. i.e. removing the unit and replacing like for like or tightening a loose connection.
Thanks
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