Electric Heating Company SlimJim Technical Manual

Electric flow boiler

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Electric Flow Boiler
INSTALLATION
&
TECHNICAL MANUAL
If you require any further assistance:
Telephone: 01698 820533
Fax: 01698 825697
E-mail: info@electric-heatingcompany.co.uk
or visit our website www.electric-heatingcompany.co.uk

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  • Page 1 Electric Flow Boiler INSTALLATION & TECHNICAL MANUAL If you require any further assistance: Telephone: 01698 820533 Fax: 01698 825697 E-mail: info@electric-heatingcompany.co.uk or visit our website www.electric-heatingcompany.co.uk...
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    The Magnetic Filter carefully, to ensure the long life and reliable operation of this appliance. The Electric Heating Company may make minor must be cleaned at least annually. Failure to clean the Magnetic changes when necessary in the appliance that will not be shown Filter may result in boiler/system failure.
  • Page 4 Vented Systems: PREPARATION • circulation pump, 1. Load Check • pump valves, A load check should be taken into consideration when • F & E tank, installing high output kW boilers. • magnetic filter, • automatic by-pass, if required. 2. Boiler location The boiler must be fitted on a wall that will provide an Unvented Systems: adequate fixing, and should be fitted in a location that the...
  • Page 5: Installation

    17th Edition certified Electrical Engineer. We recommend the use of an automatic bypass within this The Electric Heating Company Ltd will not be held responsi- circuit and set to the relevant settings to allow the minimum...
  • Page 6: Electric Boiler Internal Layout

    INSTALLATION ELECTRIC BOILER INTERNAL LAYOUT [1] - Water outlet [flow] [7] - Cold water inlet temperature sensor [2] - Water outlet temperature sensor [8] - Control board [3] - Heating exchanger (6 stage) [9] - Water inlet [return] [4] - Contactor [10] - Pump and room thermostat cable entries [5] - Power board [11] - Electric mains entry [6] - WT3 safety temperature limiter [12] - Front control panel Figure 1 Note: The boiler is fitted with a Safety Temperature cut-out that protects the boiler from failure.
  • Page 7 The ‘Slim Jim’ range of boilers can be used in various system 1. Fill the system with cold mains water to the recommended designs. Please refer to The Electric Heating Company for more pressure 1.5 bar and check for leaks, then drain the system details on under floor heating requirements.
  • Page 8 INSTALLATION Figure 2 Figure 3...
  • Page 9: Electrical Connections & Controls

    ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS AND CONTROLS ALL WIRING MUST BE CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH Boiler Protection CURRENT IEE BS7671 WIRING REGULATIONS The recommended protection for hard wired boilers are as follows: ALL ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS MUST BE MADE BY A QUALI- Model No Boiler size Protection FIED TRADESPERSON...
  • Page 10: Electrical Connections And Controls

    ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS AND CONTROLS ELECTRICAL DOMESTIC ‘MAINS’ CONNECTION: Figure 4 hows the electrical ‘mains’ connection to UK do- mestic network Slim Jim Boiler Figure 5 shows the boiler connections of the single phase system LNE - Neutral, Earth & Phase conductors [6] - Temperature Limiter [15] - Additional conductor...
  • Page 11 EXTERNAL CONTROL WIRING ROOM THERMOSTAT PROGRAMMER CALL FOR HEAT BOILER CONNECTIONS Note: Mains connection to 3 Amp fused spur Figure 6 PROGRAMMER ROOM THERMOSTAT CALL FOR HEAT BOILER CONNECTIONS NOTE! ‘Call for heat’ ‘RP’ connections...are Volt free Contacts Figure 7...
  • Page 12: Connection Of External Appliances

    CONNECTION OF EXTERNAL APPLIANCES Figure 8 shows the Control Board (Controller) to which a number of external appliances can be connected. The board can be set for different working modes of operation. In addition the board provides signal indicators for ‘start up’ and diagnostic monitoring of the correct boiler operation.
  • Page 13: Front Control Panel Operation

    CONNECTION OF EXTERNAL APPLIANCES 1. Room Thermostat A voltage free Room Thermostat should be 3. Choosing pump mode. There are jumpers on the control board connected to the boiler through the ‘RP’ [1] connections. When to control the operating mode of the pump [7]. Bridging the the connections are closed, a ‘call for heat’...
  • Page 14 Failure signals 1. Flow failure - when the boiler is on (switch [4] in position “1”) the indicator flashes at 1 second intervals. 2. Inner temperature sensor failure - the indicator flashes at much more frequent intervals than described in ‘1’ above. It will also indicate a failure when the boiler is off (switch [4] in position “0”).
  • Page 15: Fault Finding

    FAULT FINDING Symptom Reason Procedure No mains power supply Check out the electric mains parameters and fuses The [2] indicator does not illumi- nate The inner safety temperature limiter Call competent service engineer has locked out The [3] indicator flashes Inner temperature sensor failure Call competent service engineer Call competent service engineer - check out the fuse on the...
  • Page 16 Electric Heating Company Ltd Unit 40, Block 5 Third Road Blantyre Industrial Estate Blantyre Glasgow G72 0UP Tel: 01698 820533 Fax: 01698 825697 www.electric-heatingcompany.co.uk...

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