what makes a boiler stink?

[kay-jay]

last night when going bed i noticed a funny smell. stronger in kitchen, went round sniffing everything it was coming from boiler. wb24i junior 12yr old.

smell strongest from around the pcb compartment. no visible signs of melting/burning but whole thing smelled kind of smokey. glass fuse on pcb is still intact.

boiler dead as a doornail,

has anyone come across this??? does it sound like pcb burned out? it had a new pcb 3.5 years ago. didn't smell last time, possibly different fault.

reckon its worth fixing or getting a new one?

cheers

 

[Mike Jackson]

My Worcester 350 did 17 years so you get be getting another 5 years out of it. It's got to depend on the condition of all the other components. My boiler was still working when I swapped it but there were a lot of minor intermittent faults showing so I decided to swap it while I had the money.

 

[kay-jay]

All good other than this. Band d though so not efficient. Smell has a hint of fish to it.

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[SafeGasInstall]

any dead insects

 

[villa_tom]

I'd go for the pub, the puma board absolutely wreaks when it's decided to crash and burn

 

[Rickster123]

I'd go for the pub

Bit early for that Tom!

 

[villa_tom]

Bit early for that Tom!

Damn you auto correct 🙂

 

[kay-jay]

It was the transformer in the end. All sorted for £20.

A quick check with multi meter confirmed the heat hadn't damaged the pcb
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[Guest123]

All good other than this. Smell has a hint of fish to it.

Mines was my wifes wet knickers drying on the flue.

 

[kay-jay]

i seem to remember that they use something like seafood shells or fishscales or something in the manufacture of circuit boards.