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No not necessarily. It will shut down but with a no flame detected code.

A long day eating the house empty of bacon. Bet you took that lot back to bed too.

Respect to you for having a strong pressure behind your stream! Im a great fan of BBU’s. An old school has fire slapped to the front of another lump of iron. What’s not to love? 💋

Go google it

Ahhh a brainless lump of cast iron.

You are talking about your muffin top right ?

Not necessarily. Burners don’t just suddenly develop faults, if ever. They may get a bit mucky depending on the outside environment around the flue terminal. but not as a general rule no. A burner fault would be a symptom that has built up and worsened over time. And this would be apparent by checking the digital fault codes history. Plus, unless your carrying a service seal kit, I wouldn’t advise it.

Gee thanks. I’ve only been doing it 32 years to. I’m not convinced by your credentials though..... you don’t need to remove the burner to check the electrodes. 🙄

Better to have and not need than to need and not have 👍🏻

Yes it’s Jon!

Yes it does. So all the power and fuel consumption of an out drive without the maintenance of the legs. But, as you say, they are rarer than rocking horse shit. I was on the look out for one before I got my starfisher, but gave up after just missing out on one in Wales.

All right , All right , ALL RIGHT FFS I’ll tell you, just stop with the constant PM’s .....jeez The fan has a snorkel style air intake which sucks the gas from the gas valve rather than the gas pressure being regulated by a governor. The air gas mixture is pre mixed before hitting the burner. Well, that snorkel has a noise suppressor built into it (the rectangular box at the top). In that box is a load of foam which suppresses the noise of the air being sucked into the fan. This is how the boilers keep their quietness. If that foam becomes unstuck from the case it can be sucked in cucumber shaped slices along the rest of the snorkel. This In turn blocks the airs passage and results in incomplete combustion. As we all know incomplete combustion by way of too little air makes a flame lift off the burner. As this happens the flame retention device registers no ignition and shuts the boiler down. On heating, ie low gas consumption the problem is not noticed until flow and return sensors recommend a higher rate of gas to quicken the heating cycle. This is why engineers assume (as you did) that if it’s not the gas valve it must be the PCB. But by that time the customer is already £300 + vat down in parts and still has the same problem. The moral of this story is.... before buying parts for the f28,f29 and f54 problem, disconnect the air noise suppressor first and run the boiler up. Just to check. Also it pays to always pop your head out side and make sure no foliage has grown into the air intake of the flue.

Doh

That made me laugh out loud as my son was demonstrating his latest guitar learnings. Most unexpected.

There is something to be said for travelling in comfort. These other oiks just don’t get it.

I’m not telling you now. You’ve built it up too much. 👅

I didn’t create the problem, I’m asking you if your clever enough to work out what the problem is? Obviously not though 😩 I fixed it yesterday and thought I’d pass on the info after a little test.

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Yep all electrics are 100%

I already know what the fault is. I remedied it yesterday.

Yes 99.99% of the time if you have those 3 fault codes. The trouble is other elements can give the same codes and it’s not the gas valve. And it’s not the pcb. This is where I’m just testing @jonnyswamp and his fault finding skills. There is no big climax to this thread, it’s more just highlighting that norm is not always the norm.

The bed in the saloon is more suited to a couple of kids. I can sleep on it single and I’m 5.11”, but two adults would be pushing it. I have two 200ltr diesel tanks.

Then I’d say a decent aux is a good idea. What do you have ?

Guess again. Remember it’s now getting expensive.