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Hot water/ Heating wiring problems
Please could someone advise me on the following situation.
My system comprises Suprima 50 boiler (recently thoroughly checked by portterton engineer when replacing parts), Honeywell 4073 3 port valve, Honeywell room stat, Potterton EP3002 programmer, Honeywell cylinder stat, Grundfos pump and Honeywell frost stat. The 3 way valve, room stat and programmer were new with the boiler parts and have been wired in by a qualified electrician according to the wiring diagrams using a Honeywell 10 way junction box, he has used new wiring for all the components thus rewiring the whole system as per the diagrams. The electrician has spent 3 whole days checking and rechecking the wiring, looking at boiler wiring diagrams as well as the Sundial Y diagrams and the valves and programmers own ones. He is now at a total loss and I am just in despair. The problems encountered include:- Phantom boiler running, as if frost stat telling boiler it's too cold - hopefully now resolved, should know later, hopefully the boiler won't come on of it's own accord. Radiators getting hot when only hot water is on - still unsolved. When hot water on the manual lever is in the auto position with resistance to being moved. When the CH is switched on the lever becomes loose with no resistance. When the CH is switched off the motor whirrs and the resistance returns. Tonight when the programmer got to the set time to come on the boiler lights showed that it was not getting instructions, however when the room thermostat was turned right up to over 25C the boiler fired. However when the programmer switched off the boiler kept going until the room stat was turned down. Clearly this is no good if I want the programmer to come on to heat water early in the morning, when I'm asleep, as I'd have to be up to adjust the room stat to make the boiler light. He's convinced it must be a problem somewhere in the wiring but says he has run out of options and doesn't see how it can be wrong when it is exactly as the diagrams show. Please help. |
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Hot water/ Heating wiring problems
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
bachippy wrote: Please could someone advise me on the following situation. My system comprises Suprima 50 boiler (recently thoroughly checked by portterton engineer when replacing parts), Honeywell 4073 3 port valve, Honeywell room stat, Potterton EP3002 programmer, Honeywell cylinder stat, Grundfos pump and Honeywell frost stat. The 3 way valve, room stat and programmer were new with the boiler parts and have been wired in by a qualified electrician according to the wiring diagrams using a Honeywell 10 way junction box, he has used new wiring for all the components thus rewiring the whole system as per the diagrams. The electrician has spent 3 whole days checking and rechecking the wiring, looking at boiler wiring diagrams as well as the Sundial Y diagrams and the valves and programmers own ones. He is now at a total loss and I am just in despair. The problems encountered include:- Phantom boiler running, as if frost stat telling boiler it's too cold - hopefully now resolved, should know later, hopefully the boiler won't come on of it's own accord. Radiators getting hot when only hot water is on - still unsolved. When hot water on the manual lever is in the auto position with resistance to being moved. When the CH is switched on the lever becomes loose with no resistance. When the CH is switched off the motor whirrs and the resistance returns. Tonight when the programmer got to the set time to come on the boiler lights showed that it was not getting instructions, however when the room thermostat was turned right up to over 25C the boiler fired. However when the programmer switched off the boiler kept going until the room stat was turned down. Clearly this is no good if I want the programmer to come on to heat water early in the morning, when I'm asleep, as I'd have to be up to adjust the room stat to make the boiler light. He's convinced it must be a problem somewhere in the wiring but says he has run out of options and doesn't see how it can be wrong when it is exactly as the diagrams show. Please help. Assuming that the kit is all working properly, there must be *something* wrong with the wiring! I'm not aware that the Honeywell Y-Plan wiring diagram makes any provision for a frost stat. Exactly where is this connected? My hunch is that the problem is in this area. The other possibility is that some of the connections are reversed on the cylinder stat. Bear in mind that HW OFF is live when HW is off at the programmer. If this is wrongly connected at the cyl stat, such that it's getting connected to the boiler when it shouldn't be, strange things are likely to happen. If your man has been staring at it for 3 days, he's not going to find the deliberate mistake now. You need a fresh pair of eyes to look at it. -- Cheers, Roger ______ Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP! |
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bachippy wrote:
Please could someone advise me on the following situation. My system comprises Suprima 50 boiler (recently thoroughly checked by portterton engineer when replacing parts), Honeywell 4073 3 port valve, Honeywell room stat, Potterton EP3002 programmer, Honeywell cylinder stat, Grundfos pump and Honeywell frost stat. The 3 way valve, room stat and programmer were new with the boiler parts and have been wired in by a qualified electrician according to the wiring diagrams using a Honeywell 10 way junction box, he has used new wiring for all the components thus rewiring the whole system as per the diagrams. The electrician has spent 3 whole days checking and rechecking the wiring, looking at boiler wiring diagrams as well as the Sundial Y diagrams and the valves and programmers own ones. He is now at a total loss and I am just in despair. The problems encountered include:- Phantom boiler running, as if frost stat telling boiler it's too cold - hopefully now resolved, should know later, hopefully the boiler won't come on of it's own accord. Radiators getting hot when only hot water is on - still unsolved. When hot water on the manual lever is in the auto position with resistance to being moved. When the CH is switched on the lever becomes loose with no resistance. When the CH is switched off the motor whirrs and the resistance returns. Tonight when the programmer got to the set time to come on the boiler lights showed that it was not getting instructions, however when the room thermostat was turned right up to over 25C the boiler fired. However when the programmer switched off the boiler kept going until the room stat was turned down. Clearly this is no good if I want the programmer to come on to heat water early in the morning, when I'm asleep, as I'd have to be up to adjust the room stat to make the boiler light. He's convinced it must be a problem somewhere in the wiring but says he has run out of options and doesn't see how it can be wrong when it is exactly as the diagrams show. Please help. Best thing is if you colour each source of electrons, then see which ones are arriving at the boiler, then you know. Tried this once but I had difficulty getting the food colouring into teh wires, theyre do tiny you see. Getting the colour into the middle of each strand, I dunno but should be ok if youve got solid cable. NT |
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He's convinced it must be a problem somewhere in the wiring but says he
has run out of options and doesn't see how it can be wrong when it is exactly as the diagrams show. You should have gone S-Plan! Much easier to debug. Very simple electrically, without the jiggery pokery of Y-Plan. Christian. |
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