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Wasn't sure whether to post this in electrical or pumbing etc. so please move if this isn't the right place.
Anyway, my CH controls have been playing up, with the boiler not always firing when it should. For ages I've been tinkering and prodding to somehow keep it going (endless thermostat fiddling, battery changes, pressing every button possible on the controls and receiver, even messing with the 3 way valve in the airing cupboard).
I've got to the point where I'm 99% sure it's the thermostat receiver that's the issue. It's one of these and I've read in a few places they are prone to fail
https://www.amazon.co.uk/BRITISH-GAS-WIRELESS-RECEIVER-WR1/dp/B01FBSQCQG
I've followed the advice here https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/british-gas-wr1-wireless-system.396570/ several times in managing to get it to work again, but inevitably it keeps dying on me.
Looked into putting in a new hive system and watched a good tutorial video on rewiring the new receiver in place of my current controls/receiver.
The video tutorial only had a controller to be replaced, am I right in thinking I replace my current controller (https://www.toolstation.com/drayton...AGlGR6pAQtKZ25rp1tBwA0U5oW_No6EBoCIW0QAvD_BwE) with the Hive receiver, and I can leave the current receiver wiring disconnected? As that is just to receive the thermostat signal, whereas the hive receiver will both receive the new hive thermostat signal, and 'control' the boiler via what it is told by the thermostat? Or is it the hive hub maybe?
Secondly, for my existing controller wiring, there is no wire into the central heating OFF terminal. Is that quite strange? The CH does click off when it's supposed to, so is this bit no required or am I missing something?
EDIT: this is for a non-combi boiler if that makes any difference
Anyway, my CH controls have been playing up, with the boiler not always firing when it should. For ages I've been tinkering and prodding to somehow keep it going (endless thermostat fiddling, battery changes, pressing every button possible on the controls and receiver, even messing with the 3 way valve in the airing cupboard).
I've got to the point where I'm 99% sure it's the thermostat receiver that's the issue. It's one of these and I've read in a few places they are prone to fail
https://www.amazon.co.uk/BRITISH-GAS-WIRELESS-RECEIVER-WR1/dp/B01FBSQCQG
I've followed the advice here https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/british-gas-wr1-wireless-system.396570/ several times in managing to get it to work again, but inevitably it keeps dying on me.
Looked into putting in a new hive system and watched a good tutorial video on rewiring the new receiver in place of my current controls/receiver.
The video tutorial only had a controller to be replaced, am I right in thinking I replace my current controller (https://www.toolstation.com/drayton...AGlGR6pAQtKZ25rp1tBwA0U5oW_No6EBoCIW0QAvD_BwE) with the Hive receiver, and I can leave the current receiver wiring disconnected? As that is just to receive the thermostat signal, whereas the hive receiver will both receive the new hive thermostat signal, and 'control' the boiler via what it is told by the thermostat? Or is it the hive hub maybe?
Secondly, for my existing controller wiring, there is no wire into the central heating OFF terminal. Is that quite strange? The CH does click off when it's supposed to, so is this bit no required or am I missing something?
EDIT: this is for a non-combi boiler if that makes any difference
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