Suprima - unusual (to me) fault

If it gives reliability results gleaned from owners, can be a useful guide. Not so much for a new model.

No, but still useful enough to know what companies to avoid. Maybe 1 or 2 of the not so good will get their act together at some point, until I'm not buying.

NT

On Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 12:18:12 AM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote :

Potterton Suprima boards are legendary for how cheap and nasty they are. I t's a shame because otherwise it's a good boiler - very simple with cast ir on heat exchanger and very compact (which will make it a pain to replace). It's also efficient for a non-condensing boiler.

Easy to avoid them now as the company doesn't exist any more - the brand na me has been part of Baxi for some years.

You see plenty of "they don't make 'em like they use to" comments on both those brands. WB sell a lot of boilers but it does seem that if you get a bad one it can be a right pain with recurring faults.

Boiler fitters like WB as in the event of a problem during installation their support is excellent.

The problem is or was the original PCB was a pile of s**te. I had taken the PCB reflowed the solder replaced all of the burnt components had more reworked replacement boards then i could remember but still it did all its usual lockout and other silly buggers faults.

Then around 3 years ago now i changed the PCB for the new one it comes as a complete upgrade kit on here for illustration;

From that time to this its been absolutely faultless i don't recall having to press the reset switch once it just works and works well:)

But until you do the PCB upgrade then do expect all manner of odd faults reason being is the original PCB was useless and not fit for purpose!.

Sure, they also have significant room for improvement.

availability of spares is the best for WB.

NT