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Default Adding a pump overrun

On 29/09/2017 22:37, Roger Mills wrote:
On 29/09/2017 21:23, Fredxxx wrote:


Did they have pump overruns in 2003?


Yes - long before that. My c1990 Baxi Solo (still going strong!) has
one. They came in with the physically smaller boilers with aluminium
heat exchangers - designed for fully pumped systems - whose residual
heat could cause them to overheat if the flow stopped immediately when
the flame was cut.

Having said that, the over-run logic on my boiler is somewhat flawed -
and there are some circumstances which can still result in an overheat
trip - so I have added a timer as well.


I did add the comment with tongue firmly in cheek!

I recall fitting a boiler 20 years ago which in my opinion had the
overrun timer set for far too long.