Potterton Suprima 80 boiler

[John Edgar]

We had one of the above mentioned fitted in June 2000. Almost immediately and quite regularly, it has "locked out." I have found that by turning down the water temperature on the boiler, it behaves rather better, but sometimes in the winter we need a boiler temperature more than 65 C.

My plumber now informs me that it is a PCB fault with this type of boiler of that period and that Potterton have now rectified this fault. He says that he has had to deal with this problem on a regular basis. Apparantly it was a design or manufacturing problem with the first PCBs for this boiler. He also tells me that it will cost about =A3250 to replace this faulty PCB.

Does anyone else have any knowledge of this problem? If it is the case that it was a faulty batch of PCBs then I will take it up with Potterton / Baxi.

Any thoughts or comments most welcome

TIA John.

[tony sayer]

In article , John Edgar writes

Wossisname will be along to give the web addy of replacement board as soon as.. other than that welcome to the wonderful world of a contender for the worst boiler in the world contest.

Bl**dy things a heap of cack, and the PCB is loved by plumbers the country over for the simple job of replacing the board and the profit to be made!.

I have heard that the MK2 PCB isn't that much better then the MK1, you can take it up with the wallys who made this pile of doo, but I don't think anyone's got anywhere with them ..

[nick smith]

Cue Geoff.............. or Raden .........

I had mine replaced a couple of years back and all has been well since...........

I think it cost me about £40 exchange and it only takes about 10 mins to exchange...

So I would do it for £200 plus any travel expenses...... :-))

but then others might consider me incompetent and insist on a CORGI person doing it, cos they are registered and therefore competent and allowed to charge what they want.......

unless you know differently ??????

(Let the Flaming begin....))

Nick

[Ed Sirett]

Nah, it'd only be a runner up to the Poxi-Batterton Barcelona. If this boiler had a very reliable PCB and a lowish price tag then it could even gain respect. The design would be 10-20 years behind the state of the art but (apart from the PCB) as a boiler of that ilk it's OK.

I was going to say that £250 quid was a bit steep till I looked up the cost of the PCBs (well over £150 and over £200 from some places). Law of supply and demand (demand in this case!).

raden will be along to tell you how you can go to him for well under £75 _exchange_.