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Hey
I have an elderly neighbour who's had an issue with there Rayburn 368k over the last 18 months.
They started needing to replace the Glow Coil every 8-10 weeks (at a princely sum of £120) this was tenable till the most recent one only lasted 3 days.
I'm wandering if there is anyone has any ideas on possible root causes for the coils burning out so soon and how to confirm?
Thoughts so far:
- Coil transformer over powering
- Something making the glow coils take to long to ignite the oil vapour leading to them being 'on' far too long every ignition sequence
- Something causing the boiler to go out and re-ignite far too often leading again to over-use of the glow coils.
There engineer who's serviced the boiler for > 20 years couldn't find the root cause and suggested there just wasn't anything else to be done so the neighbours out getting quotes and I'm just hoping at best to give him the time to not have to be forced to make a rash choice out of desperation.
I did manage to track them down cheaper glow coils compatible with the same Landrover and the first one lasted 10 days.
Thanks for any help in this puzzle.
I have an elderly neighbour who's had an issue with there Rayburn 368k over the last 18 months.
They started needing to replace the Glow Coil every 8-10 weeks (at a princely sum of £120) this was tenable till the most recent one only lasted 3 days.
I'm wandering if there is anyone has any ideas on possible root causes for the coils burning out so soon and how to confirm?
Thoughts so far:
- Coil transformer over powering
- Something making the glow coils take to long to ignite the oil vapour leading to them being 'on' far too long every ignition sequence
- Something causing the boiler to go out and re-ignite far too often leading again to over-use of the glow coils.
There engineer who's serviced the boiler for > 20 years couldn't find the root cause and suggested there just wasn't anything else to be done so the neighbours out getting quotes and I'm just hoping at best to give him the time to not have to be forced to make a rash choice out of desperation.
I did manage to track them down cheaper glow coils compatible with the same Landrover and the first one lasted 10 days.
Thanks for any help in this puzzle.