Our gas boiler has decided of course that this is the week to breakdown
It's an Ideal Mexico Super CF4120, this is a floor standing open flued boiler,
it's a pretty basic boiler with nothing in the way of fancy electronics. The
only control is water temp thermostat.
When required to fire up, it has a pilot ignited by a spark , which then
lights the mian burner.
So it stopped lighting up. Though I could hear the spark clicking.
As I've done a couple of times before when this happened removed the burner
unit and gas the pilot light burner and igniter a good clean and blow out
with a compressed air can. Unfortunately this did not sort the problem :-(
The gas valve is one of these
https://www.tradeboilerparts.co.uk/I...Part-no-170664.
I've tested the solenoid resistance on the left with my cheapo multimeter at it
is showing open circuit , so has presumably failed. Are there any other checks
I should do?.
Or is that pretty conclusive? I don't know much about the gas valves, does the
solenoid control the flow of gas to the pilot as well?
Thanks (and glad to see some old faces still here :-))
--
Chris French