R/F Thermostat problems

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:cry: Can Someone Help.
Recently moved into new house, It has a Gravity fed Hot Water and pumped central heating fitted. A Glow-worm floor standing boiler, The separate timer/programer wasnt working properly so I changed that to a Honeywell ST799 everything worked fine I then decided to fit a wireless Thermosat as the current position of the old wasn't right. So I bought a Drayton RF1 wireless Thermostat receiver kit.
Now my problem is that when I wired it up and started the system I blew the receiver as I may have wired it wrong, but I checked my wiring and am a bit lost as to why can sum one Help. I then wired in the old Mechanical Thermostat.
Yellow to terminal 1 .
Red to terminal three (No terminal two).
Blue to Terminal 4
And Earth to Earth. The system working fine

I wired the new one as such:

From my the Timer/Programer terminal three, to terminal one on thermostat, (Yellow)
Neutral terminal of my Timer/Programer to terminal two on the thermostat (Blue)
Terminal three of thermostat to to pump live as stated in instructions. (Red)

and I also wired in the earth. I don't now if it matters but this thermostat is double insulated, So what went wrong ? My friend said this thermostat was not suited for a gravity system, that why it blew. :(
 
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Sounds like you replaced a 3-wire room stat with a Drayton RF1 receiver (which has 4 connections) and then connected live to neutral via the Common and Call for Heat connections - Bang!

Get the wiring diagram and follow it. If you can't get an electrician. Sorry to be 'short' - but there is no safe alternative if you don't know what you're doing.
 

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