Water leakage has caused current leakage. THAT is the problem. and GET a water line regulator. $20.00. why are you allowing excessive stress on the machine??
bf On Monday, August 26, 2013 11:18:26 AM UTC-7, Mike PDX wrote: > > Hi all, hoping I can get some help with my Brewtus 3R. It's been great > for for 2.5 years with minimal maintenance but I just hit a rough patch. > By way of a quick background, the only issues the machine has had before > this are needing to replace a steam pressure gage (failed and filled up > with water) and a very slow leak from the top of the brew boiler. The leak > generally just keeps the top of the boiler damp, but from time to time it > gets worse and causes 1/8 to 1/4 cup of water to leak from the top of the > boiler, soak the tank insulation, and then drip through the bottom of the > main housing onto the countertop (the machine is plumbed into our water > line, which is typically 70psi, or RIGHT at the top of the acceptable line > pressure). I've never determined what fitting was leaking due to it's > intermittent nature, but the problem usually appeared when the machine had > not been used for several days, and resolved itself when it was in steady > use again. Here's what's going on now... > > About 2 months ago the Brewtus began tripping the GFCI protection on it's > power circuit. Initially it was very infrequent, happening just 2 times in > the first month. This lead me to replace the GFCI receptacle since I > though that might be the culprit (it was fairly old). However the problem > continued and the frequency increased to once a week in the second month, > and now after being out of town for a week (and having the boiler leak go > through one of it's dripping cycles) it's a become a constant issue, > preventing the Brewtus from being used at all. > > As the frequency started to increase I spent some time observing exactly > when the GFCI tripped, and it seems to be during the hand off from heating > the steam boiler, to heating the brew boiler. So as an experiment today I > disconnected the heating element of the brew boiler after the GFCI tripped > (pulled red wire that leads to heating element) to see if that could be the > issue... but the GFCI still continued to trip. This leads me to believe > that the problem might be in one of the relays (there appears to be one > directly below the brew boiler) and possibly due to water infiltration from > the leak I mentioned above. > > One thing I haven't tried yet is disconnecting the brew boiler BEFORE > powering on and seeing if that changes anything (I'll give it a shot > tonight after everything cools off) but wanted to get this post up sooner > than later. And last but not least I have a multi-meter I could use to > check for grounding issues, but without a deeper idea of how the Bretus is > wired I'd be working at random. > > Any advice or thoughts would be most welcome! > > Thanks, > Mike > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
