Hello all,
This is my first time on a forum, so I'm sorry if I'm doing it wrong or typing in the wrong place. It looks interesting the information about Rallies and other peoples travels. I can't wait to read more! At the moment though...I’m just wondering if there’s anyone with the same or similar model motorhome who might be able to offer some advice.
We have just bought our first Hymer, it’s a B544 year 2000 left hand drive with a Traumatic C system with boiler and heating via gas. I filled the water tanks today and then opened the hot water taps in the bathroom and kitchen to fill the boiler. I left the taps running until all of the air appeared to have come out of the taps and then turned them off and turned on the hot water boiler on the control panel (on the side, exterior of the wardrobe. The boiler is in the base of the wardrobe.)
The yellow light came on (on the panel) as indicated in the handbook and then when the yellow light went off (I checked and it had after about 20 minutes) I ran the hot water…it let a little water out for about a second and then spluttered and was forcing air out all over again for quite a few minutes. After that the water ran freely….but it was completely cold. The yellow light came back on the control panel and so I thought I’ll leave it for 50 minutes, maybe I’d not given it enough time (being a complete novice). I came back again and the exact same thing happened.
I felt the boiler and it was really warm and started to get concerned as I’d heard horror stories about boilers burning dry. The little red valve (for emptying the boiler) was up as per the previous owners instructions and the manuel (we’ve also tried this after we bought it when we brought it home to drain it for the cold weather and it did indeed empty the tank.) I then pressed the little red valve down to see it there was any water in it as I couldn’t understand how the boiler was warm but the water was completely cold. It was empty, it made some sighing and gulping noises but no water came out at all! So now I’m worried that I’ve killed my boiler but also where the water is going and why it is not staying in the boiler. I’ve emptied the whole system to see if it was an air lock and started again. But again the same thing happened (I opened the hot water tap to fill the tank…however didn’t switch the boiler on this time). When I came back the boiler had drained itself again.
So this is all that I know, the boiler seems to be emptying itself off straight away into the grey waste tank (as this was empty and had water in it after I came back having left it with the boiler full…I had the plugs in the sinks when running the air/water through to fill the tank so there was no water going through from these). Also there are three little pipes under the motorhome (under where the boiler is, one of them is where water would normally come out if you drain the boiler) and once I’ve filled the boiler….I can hear it sucking up air into one of these tubes. I wondered if there was another valve that had come open (we haven’t opened any others to my knowledge, I’ve looked around the boiler and can’t find any other valves apart from the main red one either).
Any advice would be much appreciated, many thanks in advance Helen
This is my first time on a forum, so I'm sorry if I'm doing it wrong or typing in the wrong place. It looks interesting the information about Rallies and other peoples travels. I can't wait to read more! At the moment though...I’m just wondering if there’s anyone with the same or similar model motorhome who might be able to offer some advice.
We have just bought our first Hymer, it’s a B544 year 2000 left hand drive with a Traumatic C system with boiler and heating via gas. I filled the water tanks today and then opened the hot water taps in the bathroom and kitchen to fill the boiler. I left the taps running until all of the air appeared to have come out of the taps and then turned them off and turned on the hot water boiler on the control panel (on the side, exterior of the wardrobe. The boiler is in the base of the wardrobe.)
The yellow light came on (on the panel) as indicated in the handbook and then when the yellow light went off (I checked and it had after about 20 minutes) I ran the hot water…it let a little water out for about a second and then spluttered and was forcing air out all over again for quite a few minutes. After that the water ran freely….but it was completely cold. The yellow light came back on the control panel and so I thought I’ll leave it for 50 minutes, maybe I’d not given it enough time (being a complete novice). I came back again and the exact same thing happened.
I felt the boiler and it was really warm and started to get concerned as I’d heard horror stories about boilers burning dry. The little red valve (for emptying the boiler) was up as per the previous owners instructions and the manuel (we’ve also tried this after we bought it when we brought it home to drain it for the cold weather and it did indeed empty the tank.) I then pressed the little red valve down to see it there was any water in it as I couldn’t understand how the boiler was warm but the water was completely cold. It was empty, it made some sighing and gulping noises but no water came out at all! So now I’m worried that I’ve killed my boiler but also where the water is going and why it is not staying in the boiler. I’ve emptied the whole system to see if it was an air lock and started again. But again the same thing happened (I opened the hot water tap to fill the tank…however didn’t switch the boiler on this time). When I came back the boiler had drained itself again.
So this is all that I know, the boiler seems to be emptying itself off straight away into the grey waste tank (as this was empty and had water in it after I came back having left it with the boiler full…I had the plugs in the sinks when running the air/water through to fill the tank so there was no water going through from these). Also there are three little pipes under the motorhome (under where the boiler is, one of them is where water would normally come out if you drain the boiler) and once I’ve filled the boiler….I can hear it sucking up air into one of these tubes. I wondered if there was another valve that had come open (we haven’t opened any others to my knowledge, I’ve looked around the boiler and can’t find any other valves apart from the main red one either).
Any advice would be much appreciated, many thanks in advance Helen