ideal response 120 help

[shortall]

hi i am new to the forum ,i have been havin a great deal of hassle with my ideal response 120 combi boiler.its got an intermittant fault were the burner will not light ive replaced the 2 pcb boards and allthough it worked for a while its now packed up again .has anybody got any ideas?thanks

 

[Deleted member 105431]

hi i am new to the forum ,i have been havin a great deal of hassle with my ideal response 120 combi boiler.its got an intermittant fault were the burner will not light ive replaced the 2 pcb boards and allthough it worked for a while its now packed up again .has anybody got any ideas?thanks

take a hammer to it, take it to the scrappy. Put what the scrapman gives you towards a decent boiler.

 

[gas4you]

As DM says or call Ideal. They made this carp, let them fix it

 

[mickyg]

Probably needs a good service and a set of new electrodes. However the above points are very good ones.

 

[ChrisR]

Likely to be the spark generator. About £35 and 5 minutes. Easy to test - have you?

 

[shortall]

Likely to be the spark generator. About £35 and 5 minutes. Easy to test - have you?

ye think so have disconnected the ht leads from the spark electrodes and there was no spark between the ht leads does this make sense?

 

[petit_pablo]

Likely to be the spark generator. About £35 and 5 minutes. Easy to test - have you?

ye think so have disconnected the ht leads from the spark electrodes and there was no spark between the ht leads does this make sense?

Yup, id have started with the spark gen, they are **** poor on these. as is much of the boiler

 

[Agile]

I famously went to three responses in one day all with a faulty spark gen but I only had two new ones with me!

More recently the problems have mostly been leaking heat exchangers.

Tony

 

[shortall]

Likely to be the spark generator. About £35 and 5 minutes. Easy to test - have you?

ye think so have disconnected the ht leads from the spark electrodes and there was no spark between the ht leads does this make sense?

Yup, id have started with the spark gen, they are p**s poor on these. as is much of the boiler

put a new spark genarator in seems to be working fine now cheers

 

[ChrisR]

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