Troubleshooting Problems And Solutions - Fondital LIPARI TN 11i Installation, Use And Maintenance Manual

4.b Troubleshooting: problems and solutions
For the best functioning of the water heater, to prolong its lifetime and ensure that it is always safe, ensure that it is inspected at least once
a year by a trained professional. The trained professional is to perform the following maintenance operations:
- Remove any rust from the burner
- Remove any deposit on the glow plug by the electrode
- Clean the combustion tank
- Check the ignition, switching off and general functionality of the device
- Check that the gas and water tubes and connections are sealed
Warning: the flowing repair instructions are only to be performed by qualified and authorized technicians.
PROBLEM
There is no spark
The pilot does not switch on when
there is a spark
The burner does not switch off
when the water turns off
The exchanger blade becomes
dirty in a small amount of time
There is a smell of gas
There is a smell of gas
CAUSE
- Exhausted battery
- Electrical cable of device is disconnected
- Electrical card is broken
- There isn't sufficient water pressure
- The membrane is broken
- The electrode is damaged
- Safety device broken
- No gas supply
- Air in the gas tubes
- Grime on the gas shutter
- Valve piston or stem is locked in open po-
sition
- Micro lever is locked in open position
- If an LPG supply, check the gas pressure
- Poor draught or dusty surroundings
- Yellow flame
- Excess gas consumption
- Due to the loss of gas in the tubes, check
the tubes and find the leak
- It can be caused by obstruction in the flue
gas circuit
- Excess gas consumption
- Substitute
- Insert
- Test, substitute
- Repair the device to guarantee pressure,
rotate the selector knob all the way to the
right
- Substitute
- Substitute
- Substitute
- Open the gas tap
- Release gas
- Test, clean
- Disassemble, clean and eventually substi-
tute
- Test
- Regulate and if necessary substitute the
tank pressure regulator
- Check the smoke channel efficiency
- Check the gas type and clean the burner
- Check and regulate
- Do not activate electric switches or any
object that produces sparks in local area
- Check the efficiency of the smoke channel
and the flue gas conduit
- Check and regulate
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SOLUTIONS