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Noona
Noona Member Posts: 3
in Radiant Heating

Hey y'all. I've got a weil-Mclain VHE6 boiler and our of the blue it completely stopped cycling on. The internet says there's a reset button, but I'm not finding one, and the LED is not lit. I somehow got it to kick on once for about half an hour by flipping the breaker and the switch, but that has not worked today. Am I completely missing something ?

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  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 15,634

    What LED are you looking for? I think the only LED there would be on the ignition control and I think that would only be lit on a call for heat.

  • Noona
    Noona Member Posts: 3

    Usually there's an LED on the Honeywell box that's there, but it's not on. The thermostat currently reads at 50 and is set for 70 and nothing is kicking on. I've flipped the breakers and the cut off switch and the on off knob there on the wall. I am wondering if it may be my thermostat?

  • HomerJSmith
    HomerJSmith Member Posts: 2,710
    edited December 10

    Noona, there is just too many things that can cause that problem. You need a professional hydronics guy come in and find the problem.

    If your boiler is plugged into a wall outlet, unplug the boiler and plug a lamp into it and see if it lights up. If the lamp lights up you have power to the boiler and something else other than loss of power is the problem. You can use a hair dryer.

    If the lamp doesn't lit up, have someone check the breaker. Breakers do go bad.

  • Noona
    Noona Member Posts: 3

    I thought as much but I was hoping that might not be the case. This is my first place with a boiler system like this. I'm much better with forced air furnaces. Thank you, anyway!

  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 26,844

    Breakers do go bad — but I would ay that that's the least likely problem.

    All boilers will have an emergency power switch somewhere nearby. I should be labelled, but… maybe not. Is it turned on? Did someonw mistake it for a light switch? It's happened… are there more than one? Perhaps one near the boiler and one near the entrance to the basement?

    After tha… there are a number of safeties on a gas boiler, any one of which can shut it off, and several of which need to be reset manually — after you find out why they tripped. This may be something for a decent tach. to play with; if they are any good they should be able to identify the problem, if not the root cause, very easily.

    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 15,634

    Does anything click when you turn the power on? Is the inducer fan warm or humming or running? Is there a damper on the flue and does it open when you power on the boiler? Is the thermostat electronic or mechanical?

  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 26,607

    A pic from further back may help. It could have a low water safety switch that is causing a no power condition.

    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
    GGross

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