Wohooo! Controller arrived this morning from Southern Temperature Sensors Ltd.
Plugged in and firing on all cylinders!!!! I did worry at first when it was staying at 36 celcius but a quick scan of the settings and it's now a heater controler not a cooling one ;o) I've currently set the offset to -7 celcious as covered in some of the correspondance on here and I've used HomeBarista's write up on initial flushes for the first shot of the day. The one thing I'm noticing off the bat that there is some considerable lag. Set at 95 celcius the unit goes off the scale for a minute then cools to 94 ish before heating again. The existing temp sensor seems to have plenty of thermal paste in place. I've been able to practice steaming milk over the last week as the steam boiler still worked and I've posted up my first ever latte from the now fully functioning unit here http://www.home-barista.com/knockbox/can-no-longer-blame-equipment-t12186.html Still not perfect latte art but I've a twin hole nozzle on the way and hopefully better microfoam. Thanks to this forum for all the good advice and smoother transition into the Brewtus II world! Mike. On Oct 14, 3:21 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike: > > Good luck the wait will be worth the wait. > > On Oct 11, 6:08 pm, Enders13 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I've just won a Stafco branded Brewtus 2 off ebay in the UK and have > > read alot from this group and many other sources. > > > I suspected the AKO 13123 Digital Thermostat was going to be kaput > > when I went to pick it up and was not dissapointed. I've found the UK > > importer and sent the defective unit to him. He believes the CPU is > > burnt out following the current through the board. I've a new one on > > the way and he's sending the defunct one to AKO in Spain to try and > > get answers. I just wanted to let people know that I was aware of this > > units failures with a number of brewtus owners and I hope to get some > > acknowledgement from AKO. > > > I will seriously consider a PID conversion in the future and am > > currently researching a UK solution. > > > So so far my unit is only pumping steam and I've yet to sample the > > delights of espresso and once my replacement AKO unit arrives later > > next week I can get that brew boiler fired up and pull my first shots. > > > Mike > > UK.- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
