Gas solenoid valve coil.

[ffiill]

Recently the solenoid coil on my gas sniffer gas solenoid valve packed up.
All it is is basically a coil of copper wire.
Thought it might prove useful to share my research on this.
Firstly if you go down the Chandlry route a new gas alarm is about £150
The valve just short of £100!!
BES do a complete valve for about £30 and there are Chinese varieties whic I do not trust for about £15-£20.
However all I needed was the solenoid coil which would still have cost me about £30 as a leisure market gas solenoid.
BUT as I found they are also used in autogas applications so finally I sourced a suitable coil on e bay from an autogas conversion specialist in Poland-£4 plus £3 postage!
PS it arrived here in the Highlands in about 3 days from Warsaw!

 

[rotrax]

Recently the solenoid coil on my gas sniffer gas solenoid valve packed up.
All it is is basically a coil of copper wire.
Thought it might prove useful to share my research on this.
Firstly if you go down the Chandlry route a new gas alarm is about £150
The valve just short of £100!!
BES do a complete valve for about £30 and there are Chinese varieties whic I do not trust for about £15-£20.
However all I needed was the solenoid coil which would still have cost me about £30 as a leisure market gas solenoid.
BUT as I found they are also used in autogas applications so finally I sourced a suitable coil on e bay from an autogas conversion specialist in Poland-£4 plus £3 postage!

Well Done!

 

[lw395]

Am I the only one who thinks 'solenoid coil' and 'gas safety' don't sit happily together?

Please make sure whatever switches your coil cannot spark...

/[engineer with safety badge]

 

[VicS]

Am I the only one who thinks 'solenoid coil' and 'gas safety' don't sit happily together?

Please make sure whatever switches your coil cannot spark...

/[engineer with safety badge]

the switch/relay will most likely be located in the alarm unit.

There should be nothing that will spark in the solenoid.

OP is only repairing an existing valve by replacing the coil.

He says it is a suitable coil ... if it isn't then that's another matter

 

[ffiill]

Solenoid coil is a totally sealed coil of copper surrounded by plastic the whole item wrapping around the outside of the gas valve.The whole point being the needle valve is inside the gas valve and it is magnetism that causes it to open and a spring that returns it to shut when the power is interupted.

 

[LittleSister]

Are we talking about an alarm, or a gas shut-off valve?

 

[Billjratt]

Hopefully the coil is the same resistance as the original as there is usually a "pick and hold" function on gas valve controllers, whereby a strongish pulse of current is generated to open the valve, then the current is reduced to just keep it open. If the new coil burns out too, maybe the hold current is too high, or the controller isn't switching down.

 

[SailorBill]

Recently the solenoid coil on my gas sniffer gas solenoid valve packed up.
All it is is basically a coil of copper wire.
Thought it might prove useful to share my research on this.
Firstly if you go down the Chandlry route a new gas alarm is about £150
The valve just short of £100!!
BES do a complete valve for about £30 and there are Chinese varieties whic I do not trust for about £15-£20.
However all I needed was the solenoid coil which would still have cost me about £30 as a leisure market gas solenoid.
BUT as I found they are also used in autogas applications so finally I sourced a suitable coil on e bay from an autogas conversion specialist in Poland-£4 plus £3 postage!
PS it arrived here in the Highlands in about 3 days from Warsaw!

Nice one!

 

[Sandyman]

Recently the solenoid coil on my gas sniffer gas solenoid valve packed up.
All it is is basically a coil of copper wire.
Thought it might prove useful to share my research on this.
Firstly if you go down the Chandlry route a new gas alarm is about £150
The valve just short of £100!!
BES do a complete valve for about £30 and there are Chinese varieties whic I do not trust for about £15-£20.
However all I needed was the solenoid coil which would still have cost me about £30 as a leisure market gas solenoid.
BUT as I found they are also used in autogas applications so finally I sourced a suitable coil on e bay from an autogas conversion specialist in Poland-£4 plus £3 postage!
PS it arrived here in the Highlands in about 3 days from Warsaw!

Good for you. Many many items, parts & components used in the marine world have uses in other industries & applications................................its just finding them and avoiding the usual situation where its got 'marine' stamped on the item it's three times the price.

eg: International do a range of thinners, the green 1ltr tins !!, the lowest grade which they call a ''thinners'' is just like white spirit at £8 odd a Ltr whereas you can go to any DIY store and buy the same quantity for under a quid. Their top of the range thinners sells for 15 odd quid. I go to Lidel and buy 1 Ltr tins of the same stuff for £1.99.

 

[ghostlymoron]

What a wonderful story - well done!