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Steam Boiler not turning on

Hello everyone, so I cleared out the dirty water from my steam boiler. 10 minutes later, the boiler just turned off with no single. I tried to turn it off and on after a few minutes and no single at all. Any suggestions for fixing it? 

It's a Weil mclain eg/peg50pidn s5

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  • GW
    GW Member Posts: 4,817
    10 minutes, the sort of sounds like the safeguard low water cut off. Did it come back on?
    Gary Wilson
    Wilson Services, Inc
    Northampton, MA
    gary@wilsonph.com
  • Dolphino
    Dolphino Member Posts: 5
    GW said:
    10 minutes, the sort of sounds like the safeguard low water cut off. Did it come back on?
    Nope. When I turn on the gas burner I see no single whatsoever. I cleared out much more water before and this never happened before.
  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 24,596
    Where is the water level in the sight glass?
    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • neilc
    neilc Member Posts: 2,791
    yeah, but, why is the VXT dark?
    Is the power on ?
    any other lights lit up on the boiler?
    jiggle the service switch?
    or the breaker?
    give us a picture of what you have there besides the water feeder.
    known to beat dead horses
  • Dolphino
    Dolphino Member Posts: 5
    neilc said:
    yeah, but, why is the VXT dark? Is the power on ? any other lights lit up on the boiler? jiggle the service switch? or the breaker? give us a picture of what you have there besides the water feeder.
    One of my buddy came to help, he said it's the power, not the boiler itself
  • Dolphino
    Dolphino Member Posts: 5
    Update: The power cut off somewhere so that's is why the whole thing wasn't turning on. The boiler is fine now.
    CLamb
  • neilc
    neilc Member Posts: 2,791
    ok, he didn't "Jump" anything to make it work?, did he?
    known to beat dead horses
  • GW
    GW Member Posts: 4,817
    Probably the “switch at the top of the stairs”
    An oldie but goodie 
    Gary Wilson
    Wilson Services, Inc
    Northampton, MA
    gary@wilsonph.com
    ethicalpaul
  • Dolphino
    Dolphino Member Posts: 5
    neilc said:
    ok, he didn't "Jump" anything to make it work?, did he?
    Nope, he just redid some wires and it started working.