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Oil Fired Boiler Electrical Terminals.

Today I had to connect up a single channel programmer to a Grant Vortex Pro oil fired boiler. I am not very clued up on these types of boiler. It has a small hot water tank inside it that stores hot water. It has an expansion vessel as well. It can be switched to have hot water continually available (not timed) or timed via a programmer, and heating to radiators either constantly or through a programmer and thermostat. The terminal board inside is very clearly labelled with about three dozen terminals starting with the mains in and including dedicated terminals for a room thermostat, frost thermostat, programmer connections etc. Programmers in the past that I have connected have had a line feed to the common terminals of the switches. Not being sure about this being suitable in this case I just connected up the programmer using a Volt free arrangement to the appropriate boiler terminals as shown in the wiring diagram. Are these terminals Volt free or is one terminal on the board for the heating a line supply does anyone know?


Thanks,


Z..


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  • Quite correct Andy, I did remove a link of the heating pair of terminals in the boiler . However I wanted to know if the supply terminals of the pair of terminals was using a mains Voltage or an E.L.V. This may affect the choice of external items like type of thermostat or programmer used etc. and the wiring arrangement. I opted for a Volt free arrangement at the programmer for safety for the heating control,  and it worked well. I was not keen to blow up the new £2,5000 oil fired boiler by sending a 240 Volt supply into a control terminal designed for 12 Volt.


    Z.
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  • Quite correct Andy, I did remove a link of the heating pair of terminals in the boiler . However I wanted to know if the supply terminals of the pair of terminals was using a mains Voltage or an E.L.V. This may affect the choice of external items like type of thermostat or programmer used etc. and the wiring arrangement. I opted for a Volt free arrangement at the programmer for safety for the heating control,  and it worked well. I was not keen to blow up the new £2,5000 oil fired boiler by sending a 240 Volt supply into a control terminal designed for 12 Volt.


    Z.
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