Thanks for the quick reply. I tried to check the different parameters by the methods demonstrated in the video and was partially successful. The heating element is definitely getting power when it should but I was unable to get a resistance reading from the heat element. Since I was doing what you demonstrated in the video and I was not getting a reading, I tried to get a reading on the steam boiler(working as it should) but was unable to as well. It is most likely that I am doing it wrong but maybe its the multimeter.
Could a heavy amount of scale cause this? I did not think it would be the heating element because in many other threads I read, when the brew boiler was not heating it would stabilize around 40C but my machine seems to be much higher and also the brew boiler definitely heats when the steam boiler reaches pressure when I turn on the machine. The reason I do believe the brew boiler is heating is that the rate of rise of temperature is markedly higher when the steam boiler is not heating up until around 70C. It just seems to stop around 70C even though the temp controller is calling for heat and the steam boiler is not heating. Thanks again On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 7:18:06 PM UTC-5, todds wrote: > > Could be a heating element? > > Check the ohms reading on it and the voltage. > The following video may assist. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIiLeRdVWAU > > Todd Salzman > Whole Latte Love > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Jorge See <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have a BII that is unmodified and received a tune up a few years ago at >> WLL. The brew boiler is not heating all of the way to the set point, only >> to around ~70C. The steam boiler heats up as it should and is working fine. >> I switched the stock AKO temp controller to a generic temp controller to >> see if that would solve the issue but nothing changed. The temp controller >> still shows that it is calling for heat but for some reason the temp does >> not go up even though the steam boiler is not on. >> >> Any ideas on what could be causing this issue? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
