Richard, I have been using my Brewtus III on a heavy duty timer for 5 months with no issues at all.
It is good to mention that I use a Belkin surge processor http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=400738 ( without the USB port) between the output of the timer and the machine to avoid spikes generated for the timer. I read at 1stline website that most of the electrical issues on espresso makers are caused by spikes produced by timers, therefore, they recommend a good surge protector in between. On Jun 5, 1:20 pm, Ben McCafferty <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using a heavy duty analog timer on my Brewtus 2, every day for 2 > years, with no problems. If surge mattered, all your light switches in your > house would fail frequently. When did you last replace one of those? I > think something else is going on. > bmc > "Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel....." > > > > > From: Richard W <[email protected]> > > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:03:05 -0700 (PDT) > > To: Brewtus <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Brewtus II. No Power light. Sunday morning emergency > > > It happened again. Bummer. > > > This time I fixed it the way the Whole Latte Love tech people told > > me. > > The first time I fixed it, I had re-used the h-shaped connector. They > > told me to throw it away and get some crimp connectors to connect the > > power cord wires instead of using the h-connector. It blew apart at > > the h-connector this time. I used the crimp connectors and hope that > > this does not happen again. > > > I had been using an appliance timer to turn the Brewtus on about an > > hour before I woke up each day. I am wondering it the electric surge > > from the timer switch might have caused the problem. > > > Do other people use timers to start up their Brewtus.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
