Mouse took down my very reliable BioWin 210

[Galroc]

It has been a while since I have been on this forum. My BioWin 210 has been very reliable for the past 5 winter seasons. No reason to post..lol.

It was installed by Marc Caluwe back in 2016 I think, @PassionForFire&Water

We had some initial issues after installation due to not properly purging air out of a split heating zone but once past that, the pellet boiler has been great.

I just attempted to fire up the BioWin yesterday but the display had nothing.

I checked the low water cut off and it was fine.

It turns out that a mouse got inside the control box and decided to make a nest and chew through a few wires of a 4 wire ribbon cable that went to the display. 😟

I cut the bad section out, and soldered the ribbon cable back together and Boiler is now working. 😌

There are a few ways that mice can enter the control box area.....bummer.

 

[rwh63]

mouse 1, human 0

 

[brenndatomu]

Dirty vermin bastages...hates them meeces to pieces!

 

[ezequias]

Mouse do a lot of damage sometimes.
The teeth of mice are constantly getting bigger. They are therefore forced to gnaw constantly to shorten their teeth. They tackle everything: furniture, insulation materials and electrical cables. Gnawing cables can cause short circuits and, in the worst case, fires.

 

[clancey]

They are terrible and it seems all the newer car insides they like and people told me--do not know whether this is true--that the older cars they do not like the wires because of how they were made..Just saying here...but they sure can do a lot of damage once they get inside of something..clancey