On 4 April 2017 at 13:03, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > So a further update i am still a little stuck, I dont want to bother the > WLL guys as I am UK based and cant get the parts through them. I have > checked the wiring and it all seems fine. Both boilers are good (as far as > i can tell). I replaced the SSR but this didnt make any difference. I am > still getting 235ish volts in and nothing out. The light is solid on the > SSR indicating the PID is telling it to send power to the elements. I still > get the heating/steam light flicking on at the same time as i hear the > relay click from the control box. The PID seems to dispay the temp > correctly (room temp) and has the little blue dot indicating it is sending > a signal to the SSR. Pump also works fine. My last guess is the control box > or potentially Pstat. Does anyone know of a way to bypass the Pstat? I am > guessing this isnt the broken part but it would be nice if its a cheap > part! As a side note it worked once last week, steam light came on and it > all started heating up. Are intermittant issues generally associated with > the control box? > > thanks to anyone that can help! > > Rich > > ps i bypassed both hilimit switches so unfortunately its not either of > these > > On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 9:58:09 AM UTC+1, Rich wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I hope someone can help as i am a little stuck! I think i have >> potentially googled everything possible and I think my girlfriend will >> leave me if i spend too much more time fiddling with this machine. I bought >> an Office Leva DB Rotary model that had a few issues as it was fairly >> cheap! I am not too bad at fixing things in general and I wanted to learn >> on the way so thought i would give it a go! >> >> I thought i found the issue last week as the capacitor was blown on the >> circuit board (wahoo 20p fix!), I replaced this and stopped the relay >> continuously clicking. I now have the dreaded 'very very occasionally she >> fires up' issue. So the problem is; >> >> When i turn on the machine i get the relay click after a couple of >> seconds. >> If i turn on the steam boiler at the same time the red LED flashes when >> the relay clicks. I think this means the controller is saying yes the >> boiler is full (they are) so heat them up. At this point I guess something >> is tripping the circuit and there isnt any power going to the heating >> element. >> I have checked the hilimit switches (and bypassed them) and i think they >> are fine. The SSR light remains solid green so I guess that is fine as its >> trying to say heat the boiler. The PID displays the room temp with a small >> dot next to it. When i got the machine working the other week it all seemed >> to work fine, PID was working etc. Only issue was the vacuum release stayed >> open and was pushing out water (i was going to sort this when i have sorted >> the current issue) >> >> I hope someone can help, I feel like i have checked all the wires for >> contiunity, I have also checked the boilers and all seems fine. Sorry if >> this isnt detailed enough, I have a small video I can upload if that helps! >> >> Many thanks >> >> Rich >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Brewtus" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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