Potterton Kingfisher - ignites but then turns off after 30minutes
 

Hi - I've had a gas fitter out twice now to repair it but its still not
sorted. The boiler fires up ok but after 30mins turns itself off. The central
heating pump has been replaced and the gas valve. After the fitting of the new
gas valve it ran ok for 5 days but then has gone back to square one. Any
ideas?... I've been in touch with Potterton/Baxi to see if II could get an
engineer to come out but they don't support this model any more - the boiler
is 14 years old and I'd like to repair it rather than replace it.

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Potterton Kingfisher - ignites but then turns off after 30minutes
 

On Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:44:04 UTC+1, Richboiler wrote:

Hi - I've had a gas fitter out twice now to repair it but its still not
sorted. The boiler fires up ok but after 30mins turns itself off. The central
heating pump has been replaced and the gas valve. After the fitting of the new
gas valve it ran ok for 5 days but then has gone back to square one. Any
ideas?... I've been in touch with Potterton/Baxi to see if II could get an
engineer to come out but they don't support this model any more - the boiler
is 14 years old and I'd like to repair it rather than replace it.

I'm wondering in what circumstances the boiler should be running continuously for over 30 minutes. Are you heating a pool with it?


NT

Potterton Kingfisher - ignites but then turns off after 30minutes
 

Richboiler used his keyboard to write :
Hi - I've had a gas fitter out twice now to repair it but its still not
sorted. The boiler fires up ok but after 30mins turns itself off. The central
heating pump has been replaced and the gas valve. After the fitting of the
new
gas valve it ran ok for 5 days but then has gone back to square one. Any
ideas?... I've been in touch with Potterton/Baxi to see if II could get an
engineer to come out but they don't support this model any more - the boiler
is 14 years old and I'd like to repair it rather than replace it.

Does it produce any fault codes?

Does it reset itself after the 30 minutes, or what do you have to do to
get another 30 minutes run out of it?

What model is it?

Might it be the overheat stat operating?

Potterton Kingfisher - ignites but then turns off after 30minutes
 

On Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:05:06 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Richboiler used his keyboard to write :
Hi - I've had a gas fitter out twice now to repair it but its still not
sorted. The boiler fires up ok but after 30mins turns itself off. The central
heating pump has been replaced and the gas valve. After the fitting of the
new
gas valve it ran ok for 5 days but then has gone back to square one. Any
ideas?... I've been in touch with Potterton/Baxi to see if II could get an
engineer to come out but they don't support this model any more - the boiler
is 14 years old and I'd like to repair it rather than replace it.

Does it produce any fault codes?

Does it reset itself after the 30 minutes, or what do you have to do to
get another 30 minutes run out of it?

What model is it?

Might it be the overheat stat operating?

there are many things the OP does not tell us.

Potterton Kingfisher - ignites but then turns off after 30minutes
 

On 01/04/2018 15:44, Richboiler wrote:
Hi - I've had a gas fitter out twice now to repair it but its still not
sorted. The boiler fires up ok but after 30mins turns itself off. The
central
heating pump has been replaced and the gas valve. After the fitting of
the new
gas valve it ran ok for 5 days but then has gone back to square one. Any
ideas?... I've been in touch with Potterton/Baxi to see if II could get an
engineer to come out but they don't support this model any more - the
boiler
is 14 years old and I'd like to repair it rather than replace it.

You need to go through the controls step by step to isolate where
something is not working.

So starting with the call for heat signal to the boiler... Does that
stay on when the boiler shuts off? If not work back checking the output
from the zone valve, then the stat and then the programmer.

If the call for heat is still on, then check the call for heat at the
gas valve itself... if that is present, then the gas valve must be
faulty. If not then check the output from the internal stat. If its got
a fan then look for the signal from the air pressure switch. Keep
working through looking at the chain of dependencies. Is there
electronic flame sensing? Is that working or is it detecting a flame
failure.


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Potterton Kingfisher - ignites but then turns off after 30minutes
 

John Rumm wrote:
On 01/04/2018 15:44, Richboiler wrote:
Hi - I've had a gas fitter out twice now to repair it but its still not
sorted. The boiler fires up ok but after 30mins turns itself off. The
central
heating pump has been replaced and the gas valve. After the fitting of
the new
gas valve it ran ok for 5 days but then has gone back to square one. Any
ideas?... I've been in touch with Potterton/Baxi to see if II could get an
engineer to come out but they don't support this model any more - the
boiler
is 14 years old and I'd like to repair it rather than replace it.

You need to go through the controls step by step to isolate where
something is not working.

So starting with the call for heat signal to the boiler... Does that
stay on when the boiler shuts off? If not work back checking the output
from the zone valve, then the stat and then the programmer.

If the call for heat is still on, then check the call for heat at the
gas valve itself... if that is present, then the gas valve must be
faulty. If not then check the output from the internal stat. If its got
a fan then look for the signal from the air pressure switch. Keep
working through looking at the chain of dependencies. Is there
electronic flame sensing? Is that working or is it detecting a flame
failure.



Other thought, could it be a low flow problem (leading to overheat)? System
may be clogged up.

Tim

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