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After a month or so sat on the drive, I was getting our Stella ready for things, and was heating things up (or so I thought!). The heater seemed to work, with the orange light glowing, but after a short while there was a click & the red light came on.
It keeps doing this, and I have chekced things as per this thread
there is gas in the gaslow cylinder (and the spare red calor), and the hob gases work ok with no reduction in intensity. From the checklist put up by RayC it would seem to be the problem is either with the gas supply or a bocked flue. The gas supply is oK to elsewhere, and nothing looks unusual with the flue (it vents outside just by the boiler, and nothing is likely to block it).
So, any ideas? I'm not comptetent to go checking anything other than the basic stuff, so it looks like a specialist job? Does anybody know of any mobile service engineers that do Trumas? Premier Mh's at Birdham are listed as agents, and I know they would be able to do it, but I would prefer someone who could come out to it.
It has C603 on the boiler, with the serial number (1999 year), the handbook is C3402 / C6002
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[quote="chrispeck"]It might seem a daft question but is your water running through ok?[/quote
no problem with daft questions! I didn't check that, but I'd filled up the water system last week after draining down, it all seemed to be ok cold, but didn't check whether there was any hot water.
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[quote="Glandwr"]Check gas isolator tap. Can't help where they are, all in a cupboard with us. You never know.
Dick[/quote
If there is one, I've never found it, Dick
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Run water through the hot system too, if the outside temp has dropped below 8C it may have auto-dumped the contents,
keep trying it - ours takes a few tries before the air (if it is air?) is purged from the system, then it lights and stays on.
Can you hear it clicking as it tries to light?
Our gas isolator tap is in a block of four in the cupboard by the sink, one to hob, one to oven, one to Truma and one to fridge, we have an extra one for the external barbecue too, but the basic block of four is there,
Good luck,
Dave
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Run water through the hot system too, if the outside temp has dropped below 8C it may have auto-dumped the contents,
keep trying it - ours takes a few tries before the air (if it is air?) is purged from the system, then it lights and stays on.
Can you hear it clicking as it tries to light?
Good luck,
Dave
I didn't really consider the water level, it was filled up through both the cold & hot taps, and seemed OK. It seems to fire up Ok, but then clicks off - but the heating should work whether there's water in the boiler or not?
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I think the boiler has to be full for the heater to work since the blown air and water heating share the same burner (I think), so if the boiler was empty it won't allow it to fire.
BUT there is no guarantee with that info - I am sure someone who is expert will be along soon........
Again an obvious one but just in case - do you have an external flue cover and if so have you removed it? Our Truma heater works fine with it in place on hookup but on gas we get exactly the symptoms you've described when I forget to clip off the external flue cover . . . as I always do!
Rog
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Roger
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