Hi, Im hoping some one can give me some help/ advice,
I have a pellet boiler that has not been used over summer,
when I tried to put it back on, the auger failed to turn,(motor just barely moved sort of) I unpluged it and tried it else where and it worked ok, tested the feed and it was feeding 240vac but only something like 0.30A, I thought the relay may have been damp from sitting or worn as it had failed to work right when we got the boiler but it had started working.
I replaced the relay on the board but it made no difference, have wired it up to an external relay, so the 12v realy on the board switches the 240vac (with very low amps) and this in turn switches a small 240vac coil relay that switches the auger on.
the problem is that I dont think there is even enough juice for this relay as when the coil has power the motor runns but the relay is constantly clicking very fast. which I dont think is going to be good for the motor? I know its not an ideal way to have it set up but we need heat as its getting cold.
I belive it is probobly a capacitor gone but ther is also a choke on the board,
I bont know a lot about this stuff but would like some guidance on how to check it out some more.
an idea I have just had would be to use the 12v coil circuit on the board to switch an external relay with a new 240vac supply ie not using the board one, with the bad circuit, would that be a reasonable thing to do?
the bard would be really expensive to replace and I would really like to fix it!
sorry for the long post
thanks in advance for any help any one can give
I have a pellet boiler that has not been used over summer,
when I tried to put it back on, the auger failed to turn,(motor just barely moved sort of) I unpluged it and tried it else where and it worked ok, tested the feed and it was feeding 240vac but only something like 0.30A, I thought the relay may have been damp from sitting or worn as it had failed to work right when we got the boiler but it had started working.
I replaced the relay on the board but it made no difference, have wired it up to an external relay, so the 12v realy on the board switches the 240vac (with very low amps) and this in turn switches a small 240vac coil relay that switches the auger on.
the problem is that I dont think there is even enough juice for this relay as when the coil has power the motor runns but the relay is constantly clicking very fast. which I dont think is going to be good for the motor? I know its not an ideal way to have it set up but we need heat as its getting cold.
I belive it is probobly a capacitor gone but ther is also a choke on the board,
I bont know a lot about this stuff but would like some guidance on how to check it out some more.
an idea I have just had would be to use the 12v coil circuit on the board to switch an external relay with a new 240vac supply ie not using the board one, with the bad circuit, would that be a reasonable thing to do?
the bard would be really expensive to replace and I would really like to fix it!
sorry for the long post
thanks in advance for any help any one can give
