My in-laws have an old Ideal Mexico Super 2 floorstanding open flued boiler. It old, the system is pants. It's a gravity hot water, 28mm circs up to the tank in the loft. Pumped heating, which looks like it is one pipe. Heating gets 'warm' at best, hot water is no problem.
As a result of this old crap that is fitted, during the winter months the heating takes a while to get the house up to a temperature that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning. So it would be a good idea to set the time clock. However, it doesn't work, has never worked and I'm not sure what I will need to do to get it to work. The room stat doesn't work either. To put the heating on it is a simple, fuse spur on, heating off is fuse spur off. The clock comes on and you can select everything, it just doesn't control the boiler.
The current clock is a twin channel Grasslin. Stat is a Honeywell.
My personal feeling is that, due to the fact there is no control over whether the boiler operates on heating or hot water, (it's either both off or immersion for water only), that the twin channel clock is wrong and it should have a single channel clock as per combi boilers.
There are about 8 different wire going to the clock, I'm guessing 2 from the live and neutral, 3 from/to the boiler, 2 from the stat and earth?
Any help with what I need to do? Not very good with wiring tbh.
Thanks, Arran.
As a result of this old crap that is fitted, during the winter months the heating takes a while to get the house up to a temperature that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning. So it would be a good idea to set the time clock. However, it doesn't work, has never worked and I'm not sure what I will need to do to get it to work. The room stat doesn't work either. To put the heating on it is a simple, fuse spur on, heating off is fuse spur off. The clock comes on and you can select everything, it just doesn't control the boiler.
The current clock is a twin channel Grasslin. Stat is a Honeywell.
My personal feeling is that, due to the fact there is no control over whether the boiler operates on heating or hot water, (it's either both off or immersion for water only), that the twin channel clock is wrong and it should have a single channel clock as per combi boilers.
There are about 8 different wire going to the clock, I'm guessing 2 from the live and neutral, 3 from/to the boiler, 2 from the stat and earth?
Any help with what I need to do? Not very good with wiring tbh.
Thanks, Arran.
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