On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:51:05 +0000, Jim Gregory wrote:

"Mark Wood" wrote in message
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Hi
I have bought a 1300 watt generator to power my central heating during
power cuts. However the boiler will not ignite. I am thinking this is due
to the spark generator requiring a large instantaneous current. The thing
is the boilers internal fuse is 2amp and the connection to the mains has a
3 amp fuse. The generator is rated 3.7 amp. Have I bought in
insufficiently powerful generator? Is there anything I can do?

Thanks

Check your earthing arrangements when using the genset and also the
polarity. i.e. how is neutral tied to earth?
Some boilers are sensistive to poor earthing and wrong polarity.



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