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    Steam Boiler not turning on

    Dolphino
    Dolphino Member Posts: 5
    in Strictly Steam
    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: 4,943
      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: 25,895
      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: 3,019
      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: 3,019
      ok, he didn't "Jump" anything to make it work?, did he?
      known to beat dead horses
    • GW
      GW Member Posts: 4,943
      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. 

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