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  1. D

    Faulty Oil Burner Controller

    Chaps and Ladies. New to this forum but thought I’d pass on some info having used the forum myself in the past as a lurker. Been to a job today, not a job really but a mate. Oil boiler not firing. No lockout or anything. Bit of background I changed the solenoid coil and control box back in...
  2. H

    Oil pressure safety switch wiring help

    Today I tried my hand at installing a fuel pump relay and oil pressure safety switch, but didn't quite get the result I'm looking for. The fuel pump isn't supposed to run until the oil pressure sensor hits 5 psi, but right now the pump turns the second I hook the ground cable up on the battery...
  3. R

    Outbuilding supply TNC-S to TT - Oil heating system

    Hi, I have looked at a job where the house is TN-C-S and it is heated via oil from a tank in the outbuilding. I can see the pipe feeding the house from the outbuilding oil take is metal and runs underground. The customer wants an electrical supply in the outbuilding where the tank is, he...
  4. J

    Hive conversion on Potterton oil boiler - heating only

    Hi Gents, after some advice on what should have been a relatively simple conversion, but I am hesitant due to lack of boiler experience. Have a Potterton floor standing oil boiler - supplying heating only, currently has Smiths controller, frost stat (possibly) house stat, pump feed and wired as...
  5. surreygirl

    ECONOMY 7 OR OIL FILLED RADIATORS.

    Hello Gentlemen, My agent now wants to put in two oil filled radiators in the flat. One under the window and the other on the opposite wall. I did see a few comments before about the economy 7. Bearing in mind that the E7 is on cheap rate, they now tell me that the E7 isnt working and the Agent...
  6. M

    Retired pressure jet oil & gas engineer

    Still learning after 64 years on the tools....... Self employed 47 years. Used to have the monopoly for Whitbread Pubs within 50 mile radius of Nottingham....... I've always said the more electrical complexity there is built into the modern boilers the more they will go wrong but it does not...
  7. M

    New Gear box oil for electric motor

    Just had to pull off a damaged motor to be sent off (oil everywhere ) any ideals and I know it a very general question , what grade of oil to put back in when the motor comes back . Ta
  8. W

    Need some help connecting an oil combo boiler

    First time connecting an oil combo boiler. I have a Honeywell wireless room stat and 2 channel programmer. Could anyone with boiler experience give me some guidance please? Upload the image directly to the thread: The most awesome images on the Internet - https://Upload the image directly to the thread.com/a/j1ZuV
  9. L

    Storage heater / Oil filled radiator / Ceramic radiator?????

    I’ve just bought a 1 bed apartment with storage heaters from the early 1980’s with no thermostat. The apartment is electric only and I’m trying to work out what is the best replacement for the old storage heaters. I have economy 7 What I can’t work out is am I best to go for: 1. Storage...
  10. KEV 1 N

    Green "oil" leaking from twin and earth

    Did an EICR the other day, the lighting circuits are 1.5mm stranded with a 1mm solid core cpc (not tinned) Green sleeving is fitted some I'm guessing it from the 1970s. At most of the pendants and switches there's a green oily stuff leaking from the cable where it's stripped, some places it's...
  11. dnjr

    Earth bond clamp for oil pipe

    Dear All Got a board change to do where there is an incoming oil pipe. Plastic tank with PVC covered copper pipe most of the way. Comes inside and its just copper coming up through the floor. Did an IR test and got 0.00 so it needs bonding ( as I understand it its got to be under 0.02 to not...
  12. Worcester

    Snake Oil Redistilled ? VO and PV

    Had to get 25 letters in there. If any of you are on linked in, you may care to contribute to this thread. Matth (Matt-e), et al Sign Up - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6306032439135477760/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A6306032439135477760%2C6307844209370107904)
  13. jedder

    Fitting Hive 2 to a oil boiler in Spain

    Hi all, Can you help, I have bought a Hive 2 active heating (heating only version) to replace the thermostat we have in spain, Its an oil combi boiler (Tifel - Eurofel 40 See pic) The exising thermostat / control only has 2 wires goin to it from the boiler (see pic). Can someone give me an...
  14. Leesparkykent

    Snake oil? AMR Audiophile Gold Hi-Fi Fuse 13A

    AMR Audiophile Gold Hi-Fi Fuse 13A (UK Mains Plug) - http://www.analogueseduction.net/amr-fuses/amr-audiophile-gold-hi-fi-fuse-13a-uk-mains-plug.html Must be mental IMO:D
  15. i=p/u

    Oil central heating system

    My 2 Channel time clock won't turn the heating or hot water off , does the mean a valve is sticking and back feeding to the other valve and leaving the Buttons on the time clock useless
  16. B

    Main bonding flow and return to oil boiler

    Hi this is pickling my head and any advice is appreciated. I have a TNCS system. I have an external oil boiler fed from the house in a detached garage. The main water in the house and the flow and return from the boiler are all bonded back to the house MET from within 600mm of where they...
  17. W

    Veg oil system control design help.

    hi all I'm working on a veg oil conversion for our (1997) 110 defender and have some ideas of how I'd like to control it but my auto electric knowledge is poor and I was wondering if anyone could help? I've contacted a few auto electricians and no one wants the job. I have bought a stack pro...
  18. M

    Earth wire on domestic heating oil tank - various questions

    Hi all I had a new consumer unit fitted 3 - 4 years ago. I was never told that I had to periodically test the RCDs by pressing the T buttons. Still, you live and learn! Anyhow, it is a split unit. The left side tripped when I hit the button. But the right side didn't. Did a bit of reading but...
  19. B

    snake oil wipes save electric

    Nearly posted this in the jokes thread But some folk have actually bought these. Its a wipe soaked in "snake oil" that you rub on the distribution board left to right and on the mcbs and it saves you lecky!!!!!!! by creating an electron vibrating alignment field. How do companys get away with...
  20. T

    Oil Bond

    oil rayburn, oil boiler both are far from each other oil comes in twice do i bond it twice?

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