Ray Pak boiler - Hi Delta H9-1262 long w/attachment (sue me) :) - Ladder Diagrams1.pdf (0/1)

I dont know how many, if any of you guys work on this type of stuff but I thought I'd share my recent experience with this boiler.

Last week I went out on a call to a job site that I havent been to before. The complaint was a noisey boiler. It a fin tube type. At first it sounded like a flow problem, howling sound in the HX. I checked the flow, delta T going through the hx, and so forth. Every thing was ok. I then opened it up to inspect the burners and HX. If anyone has ever worked on this boiler you know its not an easy task but what I found was several cracked burners and a sooted HX. I replaced the bad burners and cleaned the hx. Reassemble and it ran sweet as pie.

Now on to the reason for this post. After I did the repairs the owner wanted the CSD-1 preformed on both boilers which I did.

When it got to checking the flame safe guard I clipped the wire going to the flame sensor and all three stages kept burning. At first blush I though it was a faulty Fenwal ignition mod. so I switched them from one boiler to the next. The boiler I removed it from had passes the test with flying colors. Switching the module had no effect and the flame kept burning and in fact the boiler lit without the flame sensor in the circuit. Not good. Not good at all. I disabled the boiler and told them I'd be back

Well a week went by and today I was able to get back to it, ive been real busy which is a good thing. After checking the internal wiring and wiring to the stageing controls Ive narrowed it down to two things. All wiring is good. As you all know any system that uses rectification be it through the HSI or flame rod, the GV's should shut down if no flame is sensed. The module should drop out. This didnt happen and could be a serious problem. Imagine a bad HSI, a call for heat and gas dumping in. Something eventually will lite it off and it wont be pretty.

In the end run I swapped out the main circuit board which has eight relays on it. The problem traveled to the known good boiler so its either in the circuit board or a relay. Tomorrow I'll figure out which and all will be good again. Im enclosing a ladder diagram which I know is a no no but oh well it beats flaming dickheads. Take a look and see if you can determine the problem from the ladder diagram if your interested. If not, carry on.

From my point of view I think this is a serious design issue.

Points to consider

  1. closing of gv1 which is in the burner section that has the flame rod still allows gv 2 and 3 to open.

  1. disconnecting the flame sensor still allowed it to fire and run.

  2. closing off gv 2 and 3 and disconnecting the flame sensor allowed gv 1 to open and run. Eventually blower 1 shut off and blower two stayed on and the gv1 stayed open producing a nasty yellow flame until I shut it down.

Looking at the ladder I still dont see how this is possible but thats what happened. I think its either a stuck relay or something is bridged on the board. Both boards visually looked fine.

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ftwhd
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you are better at flaming diskheads than sending attachments to a newsgroup. flame on, fellow d*****ad.

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Fartikus

Oh btw, Its King. Dickhead.

I am royalty you know....

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ftwhd

That would make it King Dickhead.

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Steve

Well, if for nothing else, I complement you on posting something that pertains to this group. I know lots of stuff *pertaining* to this trade, but not the trade itself. Industrial controls are used in all trades.

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Fartikus

Well its late and I am way past tuck in time. I could e you the pdf and then discuss it over a coffee.

later

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The King

The flame sensor wire going to the module.... While running, what did you get for a signal?

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HVAC

11.4 ua which went to zero upon disconnecting the flame rod and all burners stayed lit.

Heres what I found.

Someone for some reason replaced K3 relay which is a dpdt 24vac coil with a dpdt 24vdc relay. That allowed 1st stage to fire but no other stages would. They then swapped K3 with K2 which is a spdt relay. That allowed all 3 stages to fire. Then they ran away from it. The problem was, it wasn't fixed and they made a potential bomb because if flame was lost the gv's kept open which is what I found on the CSD-1 test. Not good.

I replaced K3 with the proper voltage coil and put K2 in its proper place and all is well in boiler land.

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The King

Right.

lol

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The King

McStormy!

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HVAC

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