I sent this earlier to [email protected] but I didn't see it come back thru the list:
I pulled the sensor and determined that there indeed was water in the boiler. I then spent some phone time with Todd Salzman and we determined that the boiler element was bad. I pulled it out and confirmed it. http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s242/redthumb61/?action=view¤t=IMG_ 0342.jpg WLL is shipping anew one and we are going through diagnostics to make sure it is not dry-firing. dick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Keeler Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: No steam in Brewtus II The brewtus can only heat one boiler at a time, and the steam boiler has priority. If the orange light is on, the steam boiler is preempting the brew boiler, which is why the latter is not heating up. There's a solenoid valve underneath between the two boilers which switches on together with the pump to fill the steam boiler. Check the connections to it; it's possible that you knocked something loose while you were installing the rotary pump. Check the excellent diagrams in the Brewtus Compendium (in http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus/files), and perhaps poke around with a multimeter. I myself just completed a rotary upgrade (as well as the PID upgrade), and didn't have this problem, though it's possible that the boilers remained full the whole time the machine was shut down. If there's a process for filling the steam boiler, I don't know of it. I just finished my first cappuccino from the upgraded machine and I'm smiling contentedly! It's been a loooong two weeks (WLL shipped a couple of wrong parts initially) but I have my caffeine fix! Yay! \o/ On 4/22/10 5:06 PM, RedThumb wrote: > I purchased a 3 yo Brewtus II about two weeks ago from an individual. > It worked for about three - four days and then developed problems. > Initially it had two over-pressure events in which the relief valve on > the steam boiler popped up and vented steam. I let the unit cool down > and then restarted it but the third time it happened (once per day) > the unit would not power back up. Called WLL on Monday and it was > diagnosed that the pump had failed so I ordered the rotary pump > conversion and have just completed that. However, now I get no steam > and the unit is not heating up. WLL is sending a new limit switch and > that switch is bypassed for the moment. At WLL's instruction I left > the unit on for several hours, while I watched it, and the steam > boiler gets hot to the touch but there is no heat transferring to the > brew water. I get a full flow from the group head but it's barely > warm. The temperature display doesn't go above 28 - 29 deg C. There > is nothing flowing from either the steam wand or the hot water wand. > > I'm beginning to think there is no water in the steam boiler and I > will open the top of the boiler tomorrow to see if there is any water > there. What is the process for filling the steam boiler? Is there a > relay or valve that needs to be reset to cause this to happen? It > doesn't appear to be filling on its own. > > -- 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. -- 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.
