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The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Thanks for any guidance. Robert |
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The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Thanks for any guidance. Robert Im not sure the boards need €˜setting up. I replaced a boiler PCB some years back and it was just a simple swap. A friend in the trade sourced one for me. I then looked over the duff one, found the fault, and replaced the components. I kept it as a spare for years. |
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The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Any ID on the display components? With the replacement coating that much Id be tempted to try just replacing the display elements. Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:33:36 UTC+1, wrote:
The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Thanks for any guidance. Robert Sometimes small LCDs just need the edges pressing down a bit. A card spacer can do that. Ebay is often cheap for spare parts. If it's not a combi, you can even get whole boilers for parts. Atag isn't the most common though. NT |
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invalid.invalid scribeth thus On 09/04/2019 21:33, wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Geoff at CET Ltd is a good source of bits. (Or used to be - I no longer have gas) https://www.cetltd.com/ Andy Yes still around and a good source of advice and help -- Tony Sayer Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself. |
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On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:38:26 UTC+1, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 09/04/2019 21:33, wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Geoff at CET Ltd is a good source of bits. (Or used to be - I no longer have gas) https://www.cetltd.com/ Andy Thanks for the suggestion, but his (very) long list of PCBs does not include any for ATAG. Oh why was I persaded to fit such an unusual make. It's a great boiler, but that's no use if nobody is available to service it! R |
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On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:46:10 UTC+1, Brian Reay wrote:
wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Thanks for any guidance. Robert Im not sure the boards need €˜setting up. I replaced a boiler PCB some years back and it was just a simple swap. A friend in the trade sourced one for me. I then looked over the duff one, found the fault, and replaced the components. I kept it as a spare for years. That's interesting. Was this on ATAG or a different make? Robert |
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wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. Any ID on the display components? If lucky, it might be one of the common Hitachi HD44780 style e.g 2x16 or 4x20 alphanumeric displays ... |
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Tim+ wrote:
wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Any ID on the display components? With the replacement coating that much Id be tempted to try just replacing the display elements. If you can post a picture of the display, that would help us ID it. Assuming it's this board: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATAG-S473...-/323535065962 it doesn't show any display. Is it on a separate plugin module? Is the module plugged in directly or via a cable? What kind of display is it? (Dot matrix, 7 segment with custom symbols, graphical?) Is it a calculator-type LCD (with backlight) or do the segments light up (LED, OLED or VFD)? The classic dot matrix 16x2 character displays look like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/399 but it sounds more like it's a custom segmented display, which would make it more difficult to find a match. Ah, scratch that. The above picture shows a bank of four 7 segment LEDs next to the buttons - they're so overexposed that I missed them first time around. Those would be relatively straightforward to replace with a soldering iron. Next question, can you describe a pattern of which segments are failed? For example, it might be the top segment on each digit. Such a pattern points to the driver chip. That appears to be the chip on the picture to the left of where it's printed 'OK' upside down at the bottom of this image: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JygAA...Ui/s-l1600.jpg Can you read what's written on that chip? Theo (in Cambridge...) |
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On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 1:10:51 PM UTC+1, Theo wrote:
Tim+ wrote: wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Any ID on the display components? With the replacement coating that much Id be tempted to try just replacing the display elements. If you can post a picture of the display, that would help us ID it. Assuming it's this board: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATAG-S473...-/323535065962 it doesn't show any display. Is it on a separate plugin module? Is the module plugged in directly or via a cable? What kind of display is it? (Dot matrix, 7 segment with custom symbols, graphical?) Is it a calculator-type LCD (with backlight) or do the segments light up (LED, OLED or VFD)? The classic dot matrix 16x2 character displays look like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/399 but it sounds more like it's a custom segmented display, which would make it more difficult to find a match. Ah, scratch that. The above picture shows a bank of four 7 segment LEDs next to the buttons - they're so overexposed that I missed them first time around. Those would be relatively straightforward to replace with a soldering iron. Next question, can you describe a pattern of which segments are failed? For example, it might be the top segment on each digit. Such a pattern points to the driver chip. That appears to be the chip on the picture to the left of where it's printed 'OK' upside down at the bottom of this image: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JygAA...Ui/s-l1600.jpg Can you read what's written on that chip? Theo (in Cambridge...) I think it's on the back. Check the other images on that listing... Tim |
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On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:22:36 UTC+1, Tim+ wrote:
On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 1:10:51 PM UTC+1, Theo wrote: Tim+ wrote: wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Any ID on the display components? With the replacement coating that much Id be tempted to try just replacing the display elements. If you can post a picture of the display, that would help us ID it. Assuming it's this board: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATAG-S473...-/323535065962 it doesn't show any display. Is it on a separate plugin module? Is the module plugged in directly or via a cable? What kind of display is it? (Dot matrix, 7 segment with custom symbols, graphical?) Is it a calculator-type LCD (with backlight) or do the segments light up (LED, OLED or VFD)? The classic dot matrix 16x2 character displays look like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/399 but it sounds more like it's a custom segmented display, which would make it more difficult to find a match. Ah, scratch that. The above picture shows a bank of four 7 segment LEDs next to the buttons - they're so overexposed that I missed them first time around. Those would be relatively straightforward to replace with a soldering iron. Next question, can you describe a pattern of which segments are failed? For example, it might be the top segment on each digit. Such a pattern points to the driver chip. That appears to be the chip on the picture to the left of where it's printed 'OK' upside down at the bottom of this image: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JygAA...Ui/s-l1600.jpg Can you read what's written on that chip? Theo (in Cambridge...) I think it's on the back. Check the other images on that listing... Tim Thank you all for your help and suggestions. A new board is £480 I now discover! because I can't read the existing display I'm not able to note down what everythign is set for at the moment. IN addition, I now find that the boiler has anther fault (overheat tripping and, the latest: triping the RCD in the ring main). So I've decided it's now time to replace the whole boiler! Robert |
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On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:12:47 UTC+1, wrote:
because I can't read the existing display I'm not able to note down what everythign is set for at the moment. Unlikely to be a problem setting the new one up. IN addition, I now find that the boiler has anther fault (overheat tripping most often that's down to inadequate flow, which is usually not the fault of the boiler. If you put your hand on the output pipe you'll find out if it gets burning hot before tripping or not. If not, the boiler is probably the issue. If it does get burning hot, time to look at the filter, pump, muck in the rads or valves. and, the latest: triping the RCD in the ring main). could be due to any part of the boiler, pump or valves. Best way to test them is to temporarily disconnect each & do a hi-pot insulation test from L+N to case. If you lack the equipment, a multimeter usually picks up the problem. So I've decided it's now time to replace the whole boiler! Robert As they say, you can repent at your leisure I would not renew a boiler until I at least knew it was faulty. NT |
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On 10/04/2019 08:40, wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:38:26 UTC+1, Vir Campestris wrote: On 09/04/2019 21:33, wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Geoff at CET Ltd is a good source of bits. (Or used to be - I no longer have gas) https://www.cetltd.com/ Andy Thanks for the suggestion, but his (very) long list of PCBs does not include any for ATAG. Oh why was I persaded to fit such an unusual make. It's a great boiler, but that's no use if nobody is available to service it! It does not mean that he cannot recon your PCB. Call the firm and ask. He's a helpful bloke most of the time. Although when I moved his aerial for him a few weeks ago his unhelpful comment was "don't fall off the roof because it will cost a fortune to re-glaze the conservatory" -- Adam |
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On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:13:24 UTC+1, wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:12:47 UTC+1, wrote: because I can't read the existing display I'm not able to note down what everythign is set for at the moment. Unlikely to be a problem setting the new one up. IN addition, I now find that the boiler has anther fault (overheat tripping most often that's down to inadequate flow, which is usually not the fault of the boiler. If you put your hand on the output pipe you'll find out if it gets burning hot before tripping or not. If not, the boiler is probably the issue. If it does get burning hot, time to look at the filter, pump, muck in the rads or valves. It does this only on Domestic Hot Water (not the CH). I suspect it means the DHW heat exchanger is clogged. On DHW this boiler runs a little circular loop of water between the gas heatex and the domestic water heatex. When CH is running it just goes through the gas heatex. All these things that have been going wrong cost money (or time or both) to fix and when you add them up it makes a new boiler a viabale alternative. |
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On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:59:03 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
On 10/04/2019 08:40, wrote: On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:38:26 UTC+1, Vir Campestris wrote: On 09/04/2019 21:33, wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more. This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler. So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Geoff at CET Ltd is a good source of bits. (Or used to be - I no longer have gas) https://www.cetltd.com/ Andy Thanks for the suggestion, but his (very) long list of PCBs does not include any for ATAG. Oh why was I persaded to fit such an unusual make. It's a great boiler, but that's no use if nobody is available to service it! It does not mean that he cannot recon your PCB. Call the firm and ask. He's a helpful bloke most of the time. Although when I moved his aerial for him a few weeks ago his unhelpful comment was "don't fall off the roof because it will cost a fortune to re-glaze the conservatory" -- Adam My dad used to employ a man from time t otime to fix loose slates. He just walked about on the roof with no safety gear. My dad pointed out how dangerous this was. "Nah, I've been doing this all my life and I've never fallen off" he said. A short time afterwards he fell off a roof. R |
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On 10/04/2019 19:59, ARW wrote:
On 10/04/2019 08:40, wrote: On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:38:26 UTC+1, Vir CampestrisÂ* wrote: On 09/04/2019 21:33, wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more.Â*Â* This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler.Â* So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Geoff at CET Ltd is a good source of bits. (Or used to be - I no longer have gas) https://www.cetltd.com/ Andy Thanks for the suggestion, but his (very) long list of PCBs does not include any for ATAG. Oh why was I persaded to fit such an unusual make.Â* It's a great boiler, but that's no use if nobody is available to service it! It does not mean that he cannot recon your PCB. Call the firm and ask. He's a helpful bloke most of the time. Although when I moved his aerial for him a few weeks ago his unhelpful comment was "don't fall off the roof because it will cost a fortune to re-glaze the conservatory" He has your interests at heart. A large claim like that would push your insurance premiums up next year. |
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On 10/04/2019 21:00, GB wrote:
On 10/04/2019 19:59, ARW wrote: On 10/04/2019 08:40, wrote: On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:38:26 UTC+1, Vir CampestrisÂ* wrote: On 09/04/2019 21:33, wrote: The numerical display on my ATAG E32C combi boiler is failing; half the segments don't work any more.Â*Â* This display is on the PCB so I'm guessing the whole PCB has to be replaced. It's about 10 years old. I can buy a repalcement board for about £200. Am I right in thinking that replacing the board would not be simply a case swapping them over, but that the new board will need to be set up before the boiler can be used? It's very hard to find anyone near Cambridge to work on an ATAG boiler.Â* So hard, in fact, that I am considering replacing the boiler and gettign something more standard. Geoff at CET Ltd is a good source of bits. (Or used to be - I no longer have gas) https://www.cetltd.com/ Andy Thanks for the suggestion, but his (very) long list of PCBs does not include any for ATAG. Oh why was I persaded to fit such an unusual make.Â* It's a great boiler, but that's no use if nobody is available to service it! It does not mean that he cannot recon your PCB. Call the firm and ask. He's a helpful bloke most of the time. Although when I moved his aerial for him a few weeks ago his unhelpful comment was "don't fall off the roof because it will cost a fortune to re-glaze the conservatory" He has your interests at heart. A large claim like that would push your insurance premiums up next year. But I would not be alive to pay them! -- Adam |
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On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 20:56:01 UTC+1, wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:13:24 UTC+1, tabby wrote: On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:12:47 UTC+1, wrote: because I can't read the existing display I'm not able to note down what everythign is set for at the moment. Unlikely to be a problem setting the new one up. IN addition, I now find that the boiler has anther fault (overheat tripping most often that's down to inadequate flow, which is usually not the fault of the boiler. If you put your hand on the output pipe you'll find out if it gets burning hot before tripping or not. If not, the boiler is probably the issue. If it does get burning hot, time to look at the filter, pump, muck in the rads or valves. It does this only on Domestic Hot Water (not the CH). I suspect it means the DHW heat exchanger is clogged. On DHW this boiler runs a little circular loop of water between the gas heatex and the domestic water heatex. When CH is running it just goes through the gas heatex. that problem is in the DHW cylinder coil, not the boiler All these things that have been going wrong cost money (or time or both) to fix and when you add them up it makes a new boiler a viabale alternative.. When you suffer the same symptoms wth your new boiler maybe we can help you track down where the problems are. NT |
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Brian Reay wrote: That aside, the boilers are intended to be repaired by simply swapping parts. If thing get more complicated, the 'average' service type is often stumped and needs to call in someone else. Therefore, I doubt boards need more than swapping. True. I had a hose split on my Viessmann which soaked the gas valve. Which then blew a fuse on the PCB. And the fuse was one of those round PCB types, soldered in. Not many plumbers would carry bits to sort that. And a new PCB costs hundreds. The fuse, about 20p. -- *We waste time, so you don't have to * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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