Just pushed it and the display is up to 50 already! I feel kind of stupid, since my Silvia has a similar reset which I've used. Didn't know Brewtus thermostats had them. Looks like I've been reduced to using the press pot for a month, for no reason, while I pondered all this!
Thanks so much, Karl On Feb 13, 12:51 pm, "Dennis Keating" <[email protected]> wrote: > karl, look at your brew boiler limit thermostat on top of the boiler. > theres two wires going to it. it has a tiny button on it that is a > resettable breaker. push that button and check brewtus again. - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Karl > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 10:27 AM > To: Brewtus > Subject: Brew Boiler down > > Brewtus II has failed. > > Pump works, water coming out of grouphead is tepid. > > Steam boiler heats up, I think to full temperature since it makes steam > normally. Brew boiler does not heat up. Display goes up to about 31, with > some fluctuation. I assume this is caused by the heat of the hot steam > boiler warming up the brew boiler. > > I seem to have connectivity between both wires on the two heating elements. > I seem to have connectivity across the steam boiler thermostat but not > across the brew boiler thermostat. > > Can anyone confirm that I should have connectivity across the brew boiler > thermostat? I'm not too sharp with this sort of thing, but from the diagrams > it looks to me that if you don't have connectivity across the brew boiler > thermostat you don't get juice to the brew boiler heating element. > > Can anyone tell me if it looks like all I need to do is replace the brew > boiler thermostat, and, if so, how difficult that is? > > Karl > > -- > 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 > athttp://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.
