... though it gets cold when boiler stops firing. Discussion in 'Plumbing and Central Heating' started by ... makes quite a bit of noise and then the flame indicator on the panel goes out and it tries again. Glow Worm Micron 50FF - boiler fires from 'cold' and stops after 90 secs? ... had a boiler engineer come round and it was a blockage in the condensate trap causing it to fail to fire up. As soon as you turn the hot tap on, your boiler fires up to heat water and a valve gets opened to let the water flow through the network of pipes. Hot water is ok. At various times e.g. Removed condensate trap and there was deposit inside, so opened main hex and found quite a bit of brown dust. The flow temperature on the display goes up to 99 deg, burner goes off and DHW turns cold then the boiler fires up again and repeats the cycle. 10 min to a day during central heating the burner fires up and immediately closes down,then fires up … When it fires up it only stays on for approx 30 seconds before shutting off. Air in glow worm boiler, not firing up. Got a local plumber out today who replaced the … If is designed to do this (I forget the reason, possibly something about keeping the pump working?). Then it comes back on after about 15 seconds and then off again within 30 seconds and so on. I have a Glowworm Micron 80FF and on occasions when set for hot water the boiler fires up for a while and then stops - the boiler then makes a reving type humming noise but will not fire up - if I turn on the heating controls on the programmer the boiler immediately fires up. We have a Glow-worm Micron 60. After a few tests to try to identify where the fault lay, I deduced that it simply fires up from 'cold', but stops … If I switch the heating (or hot water) to on and the thermostat is set correctly then I can hear the pump kick in but no heating (or hot water) appears. The most common cause of this is if you have recently topped up (repressurised) your boiler after it’s suffered from low pressure. When your boiler fires up, the NTC thermistors should detect a substantial change in the temperature of flow and return water. Boilers are sources of comfort and cosiness all around the winter season. Glow worm betacom 24c,fires up then flame cuts out and light no9 flashes continuously,help! Glow worm boiler not firing up...update now fixed. By poppy December 11, 2020 Boiler Repair 0 Comments. glow worm 23c combi boiler. If your Glow-Worm boiler has a problem whereby it’s locked out and is now displaying the F.83 fault code, there’s a problem with water not being heated correctly when it fires up. This morning, my boiler showed no fault lights but appeared to have fired up but then stopped running. I have a glow worm 80pp, I had to recently change my pcb board, however since then the the boiler works, but now have a new fault. Combi boilers are designed to be manufactured with two independent heat exchangers, one of which carries a pipe to the radiators while the other one carries a pipe to the hot water supply. The pilot light is lit at this point but the boiler does not fire up at all. Anyway, there are separate indicators on the boiler for when it fires up for water, heating, and this 90 min routine fire-up. - Answered by a verified Plumber ... Glow worm betacom 24c... boiler fires up for water and CH but shuts down after 30 seconds or so and flames or gas failure light flashes. 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