Used Canon heaters & geysers in Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Is a used Canon heaters & geyser worth buying?
Canon here is the Pakistani kitchen-appliance maker — hobs, hoods, cooking ranges — not the Japanese camera company, and that mix shapes what turns up second-hand. Its instant gas water heaters are the ones worth understanding: no tank, so nothing rusts through, and the value sits in the copper heat exchanger and the water valve instead. Storage geysers and ceramic gas heaters complete the range.
Made or assembled in Pakistan
Spares are widely stocked locally and most technicians in the twin cities have worked on these, so common faults are usually economic to repair.
Canon is made in Pakistan, so ignition units, gas cocks, water valves, burners and radiant plates come from the local gas and kitchen-appliance trade in both cities and are fitted by any geyser plumber. A copper heat exchanger for an instant model is the one part worth sourcing only while that model is still supported.
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Checking a used Canon heaters & geyser
These are specific to Canon. The general heaters & geysers checks apply too and are on the heaters & geysers page.
Instant: prove ignition
Canon instant heaters fire from a spark, taken either from dry cells in a compartment behind the fascia or from a piezo button. Corroded cells and a damp compartment are the commonest reason one will not light, and both are cheap to put right.
Instant: check the flow
An instant heater is triggered by water flow, so open the tap only part way and see whether the burner still lights. A unit that needs the tap wide open usually has a blocked inlet strainer behind the water union, or a perished valve diaphragm.
Where it is fitted
An instant heater burns gas in the room it hangs in, so it needs a flue to outside and real ventilation. If it was fitted inside a closed bathroom with neither, treat the installation as the fault and price the appliance separately from where it was hung.
Look into the exchanger
On an instant unit the copper heat exchanger is the part you are really buying. Look up into the fins from underneath for heavy soot or furring, and watch whether the outlet temperature wanders while the flow stays constant, which points to a partly blocked exchanger.
Heaters: radiants and sensor
On Canon ceramic gas heaters, run a light along every radiant plate for cracks and hairline splits, then confirm the oxygen-depletion sensor shuts the burner down when it is starved. A yellow, sooty flame means incomplete combustion and the heater should not be run indoors until it is set right.
What Canon heaters & geysers are worth
- An instant heater has no tank to rust through, so the failure that ends a storage geyser cannot happen to it; what ends a Canon instant unit is a holed or heavily blocked heat exchanger.
- Ignition units, gas cocks and water valves are ordinary trade parts, so most instant-heater faults stay economic to repair, which keeps used units in circulation rather than being scrapped.
- Sharing a name with the camera company makes online part searches noisy, so a unit with a legible model plate is materially easier to keep running than one whose plate has been painted over.
Model lines you will see second-hand
- Instant gas water heaters
- Storage gas geysers
- Ceramic-plate gas room heaters
General heaters & geysers checks
These apply whatever the badge on the front says — the heaters & geysers page covers them in full.
Look at the flame
Light a gas geyser or room heater and watch the burner for a full minute. Steady blue cones with clean edges are right. Yellow, lazy or lifting flames, or black soot on the burner shield and the ceramic plaques, mean incomplete combustion from blocked jets or a wrong air mix — a servicing job at best and a safety matter at worst.
Drain water from the base
Open the drain valve at the bottom of a storage geyser and catch a jugful. Clear water is fine. Brown water, rust flakes or grit means the inner tank is corroding from the inside, and once a tank has begun to perforate no patch holds for long. Water that no longer stays hot as long as it used to points the same way, because sediment has filled the tank floor.
Check the flue and diverter
On a gas geyser, look where the flue pipe meets the hood. Rust flaking off the collar, or soot smudged around the draught diverter and on the wall above it, says exhaust has been spilling into the room instead of going up the pipe. That is a fitting fault rather than a machine fault, but it tells you how the unit has been run.
Watch the pilot after lighting
Hold the control knob in, light the pilot, then release it. A pilot that dies every time usually means a tired thermocouple or a dirty pilot jet, both inexpensive. Confirm which it is before agreeing anything, because on some models the same symptom comes from a failing gas valve, which is a different repair altogether.
Check the radiator seams
On an oil-filled radiator, warm it through, then run a hand along the fin seams and the bottom edge, looking for weeping oil or a greasy film that has trapped dust. These are filled and sealed at the factory: a leaking one cannot sensibly be topped up, and it will smoke off the element as the level drops.
Check the element and earth
An electric geyser that takes far longer than it should to heat normally has an element buried in scale, which is common with the hard water here. Look at the plug top and cord for melting at the pins, confirm the appliance has a proper earth, and on a fan or halogen heater make sure the guard and the tip-over switch both work.
Canon heaters & geysers — questions
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