If we'd got Worcester out it was goint to cost £210 for something that I believed to probably be a cheap part.
As it turns out they arent cheap parts - on the other hand Worcester only repair/replace (I believe) a maximum of 3 parts and when I spoke to them they said that an engineer could say it was beyond economical repair. So I could have paid that and have them say it was beyond repair and faced with fitting a new one at around (i'm guessing the £2k mark) I dont think (so far) I've made a bad judgement on this - £600 I cant afford, £2k I really cant afford ;)
So far we have had 3 componenets replaced. 2 components were leaking and the board had a burn / partial dead circuit on 1 cap or it may have been a resistor. A multimeter test proved this It appears it was somehow still working with this dead circuit when it was originally in though - Im unsure as to how but hey ho.
Anyway so far, it now appears to work (apart form the initial glitch after the parts had been replaced and the boiler refilled) and im told it may have been an airlock in the system that was causing the problem.
Could that be right then, that an airlock would cause the boiler to try an re ignite after it was already lit, fail and shut down or go into a mode where it needed to be reset. It's happened twice in a row after fitting and been fine since!
All I can say is the proof is in the pudding and so far its fired up correctly by itself 7 or so times whereas before it would have always required a reset before working as it would ignite, fire then reignite then shut down and have to be reset. EAch time it was going to fail the flamelight didnt come on. Then a reset and it would work.
I appreciate and helpful comments
Colin
February 2009
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