I feel guilty even burning oil, let alone asking tech questions about it.
Since last year when we installed the wood stove I've been getting less and less use out of my oil boiler. Recently, I picked up a Viessmann w/ Riello combo off Craigslist and ever since I wheeled that into my boiler room I've been having problems with the reset popping on the old boiler. My plan is to install sometime in May after I finish a few other projects. But now I'm having problems with the reset popping once every 2-3 days, then twice a day, then fine for few days.....
Well, this morning the apt over the garage was 59 when I woke up. Fuel, filter, pump screen nozzle, electrodes, cad cell, transformer all good. Restart and we're good. Not good. Transformer not good. Then transformer's good. Then not good. Bypass control and transformer's no good. Replace transformer and we're good. I hooked a pigtail to the transformer and can't get any spark. Thing is, the igniter was new in June 06.
What makes a good igniter go bad? The control is an intermittant Honeywell. Shouldn't the control shut down the igniter after a minute or so? I'm hearing it all the time.
Since last year when we installed the wood stove I've been getting less and less use out of my oil boiler. Recently, I picked up a Viessmann w/ Riello combo off Craigslist and ever since I wheeled that into my boiler room I've been having problems with the reset popping on the old boiler. My plan is to install sometime in May after I finish a few other projects. But now I'm having problems with the reset popping once every 2-3 days, then twice a day, then fine for few days.....
Well, this morning the apt over the garage was 59 when I woke up. Fuel, filter, pump screen nozzle, electrodes, cad cell, transformer all good. Restart and we're good. Not good. Transformer not good. Then transformer's good. Then not good. Bypass control and transformer's no good. Replace transformer and we're good. I hooked a pigtail to the transformer and can't get any spark. Thing is, the igniter was new in June 06.
What makes a good igniter go bad? The control is an intermittant Honeywell. Shouldn't the control shut down the igniter after a minute or so? I'm hearing it all the time.