Help, I hate cold water! (1 Viewer)

[Scotsblood]

Any suggestions folks?
Our Elddis has the Whale hot water boiler and it appears the same circuit that supplies the hob and oven igniter supplies the Whale, it’s showing the no flame warning folllowed by lockout error that won’t reset. The fuse for hob/hw igniterhas blown and a replacement immediately the power reapplied.
This suspiciously only happened after we used the oven last evening.

Whilst the trusty emergency pack supplied the matches for kettle heating I really wanted a shower!

Tim

 

[Richard n Ann]

Disconnect the 3 things on the fuse and try them one by one.

 

[Scotsblood]

Disconnect the 3 things on the fuse and try them one by one.

Would be great to try that Richard but there’s no easy way to get to the back of the chargerblock, you either need hands the size of a three year old and a flexidriver to loosen the screws holding it down or remove the fridge!

 

[two]

The fuse keeps blowing and first blew when you used the oven?
Disconnect the oven. I assume it has a light or 12V igniter?

 

[Scotsblood]

The fuse keeps blowing and first blew when you used the oven?
Disconnect the oven. I assume it has a light or 12V igniter?

Yes it’s the same igniter for hob and oven, switch is on front of oven. Tried to get to back of charger block but my hands just too big to use a screwdriver in the space to either side to loosen screws.

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[PeterCarole29]

i have tried making sense of exactly what you are saying.
So to clarify have you curently got power to any of the 3 on the circuit

 

[DP+JAY]

Can you not disconnect it at the cooker end instead?

 

[Scotsblood]

UPDATE!
Thank you to all who replied originally, apologies for my rudeness in not acknowledging your attempts to assist.
Our trip away ended due a family bereavement and the issue has been on the back burner until the van went for its hab check today.

During the check, all 'bone dry' by the way, the engineer found the igniter switch cable was resting on the oven housing, burnt and causing a dead short.
As he put it 'a fire waiting to happen' as there was no evidence the cable positioning was anything but simple poor attention to detail at manufacture.

Connector duly replaced and cable rerouted normal service has been resumed but we consider ourselves lucky! This is a safety build quality issue so the engineer has taken copious photos and is sending Elddis a report.

In future when the wife says "Do you smell burning plastic?" I will listen!

 

[two]

Thanks for the update. Some may have been losing sleep...
Sorry to learn of your bereavement.