BRITISH GAS UP2 PROGRAMMER USER MANUAL MANUAL

I’m a bit annoyed that I’ve put up with my timer being on the wrong settings for so long, but pleased that I ultimately found an easy fix (and that I didn’t have to buy a new timer). I’ve not bothered to customise specific days because I don’t need that. On powering the system back up I found that it remembered the time and my previous 24h settings, but I was then able to customise the weekend timings using 5/2 mode.

BRITISH GAS UP2 PROGRAMMER USER MANUAL MANUAL

If the jumper is left off altogether then it will offer 5/2 mode with different timers for weekdays and weekends, but there’s little point to that as 7 day programming starts with 5/2 and is then further customised for individual days (should you wish).įor full details take a look at the manual for the LP822 (pdf)Īfter setting the switch to 7 I put the timer back onto its mounting plate and tightened the screws to hold it in place. The other option is 7 which can then be configured to give different timers for each day of the week.

It was set to 1 which has the same 24hr timers every day. The switch I needed to change was the middle one.

The bottom switches between Pumped and Gravity. The top switches between Linked (hot water and central heating on the same timer) and Independent (hot water and central heating on separate timers). The top and bottom jumpers should be left alone. Here’s a closer look at the three jumpers: I could then get to the jumpers on the back: The UP2 is held onto its backplate with a couple of screws, and can be removed by loosening them and lifting it out and up. An easy changeįirstly I turned off the heating system at its isolation switch. I was on the verge of buying an LP722 when I stumbled on this eBay listing for an UP2 with the vital comment ‘Change type by pins at rear’. This thread pointed out that the UP2 is a rebadged Drayton Lifestyle timer, though it seems that guesses on the model aren’t quite on target, and are based on how the UP2 has been jumpered. Fast forward almost a decade and I’ve had enough of getting up at the weekend and having to run downstairs to press the ‘advance’ button for heating and/or hot water, so I started looking for alternatives.

If only he’d bothered to read the manual (which incidentally he didn’t leave me with). I asked the engineer if the new timer he was putting in could do that, and his answer was that it couldn’t. One of the things that I liked about the EP2002 was its ability to have different timings at the weekend. My central heating was installed with a Potterton EP2002 timer, but when that failed it was replaced with a British Gas UP2 (under the maintenance policy that I’ve had since moving into my house). So if yours is set to 1 day (like mine was) then you can get loads more flexibility by changing that jumper. The UP2 is a rebadged Drayton LP822, which means that it can operate in 1, 5/2 or 7 day modes, set with a jumper on the back.

British gas up2 programmer user manual