Hello everyone! I guess this is a Brewtus water pressure question. I just got my Brewtus IV-R from WholeLatteLove up and running, but I want to use a 5 gallon Culligan's jug as my water source rather than plumb it into the city water. I know you can just dangle the steel braided line from the Brewtus directly into the 5 gallon jug, and in fact it works OK. But I read somewhere that you can't do the manual preinfusion technique unless the water coming into the the Brewtus is under pressure, which you don't have just dangling the braided line into the water jug. A guy at Chris Coffee advised me to use a Floject demand pump as the solution, so I got one from them and got it hooked up. When you raise the brew lever and water starts coming out of the group head, the Flojet pump detects a drop in the water pressure going to the Brewtus and turns on the water pump in the 5 gallon jug, maintaining water pressure in the line. As I say, everything is hooked up and no leaks. Theoretically, this solves the preinfusion issue by maintaining pressure. The issue I have run into is that the Flojet, when it kicks on (which is does, immediately) then cycles on and off repeatedly. The Flojet manual says that when you use this pump with coffee brewing equipment [not specifically a Brewtus], the coffee machine likely has an inlet pressure regulator that "limits incoming pressure to approx. 90-100 psi. If you intend to use the Flojet BW system with one of these brewing machines, you should remove the brewing machine's restrictor device....Failure to remove the brewing machine's restrictor may cause the Flojet to cycle itself off and on repeatedly, leaing to premature motor failure of the Flojet BW unit."
Before anyone asks, I don't know what the water pressure is coming out of the Flojet. I thought I was on to a great solution, but now I am not so sure. Any suggestions? Thanks Eric -- 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/d/optout.
