Calling all heating engineers (help)

Dec 06, 2006 3 Replies

I have got an old Servowarm boiler (elite 50) and the pump went on it.


I have replaced the pump and have noticed that a bi-metallic strip wa broken in the timeclock( beleived to be old horstmann emerald)



I have got an electrician to install a new Drayton LP241 programme along with a seperate timer for the pump overrun.



All works fine except that from the boiler control drayton show 3 wire coming from the control to the programmer (Live Neutral and earth) bu mine has 4 wires from the control (Live Neutral Earth and a Red wire)



My electrician has wired the Blue to Blue on Programmer terminal, Eart to the earth and the red to position 4 on the terminal block but th live is not connected.



Can anyone tell me if this is correct and if not which wires go where?



I have no room stat or auto valve for hot water.



Each radiator has a stat and the CH/Hot water valve is manual.



Thank


-- Nigel Hewer


If the boiler provides pump over-run, it needs a permanent live in addition to the switched live. The boiler only fires when the switched live is on, but uses the permanent live to power the pump during the over-run period when switched live is off.

If you are controlling pump over-run with a separate timer rather than letting the boiler do it, the boiler won't need a permanent live - but your over-run timer *will*.

Shouldnt the electrician know whats right or wrong??

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