You should be able to get an ohms reading on the heating element that is working. Try all the different scales on the meter. Before you take our reading put the two needles on the meter together to make sure it works. Once you get it working on the steam boiler heating element you can check the brew boiler.
As another idea: If you have a "clamp on" style amp meter you can put it around one of the wires going to the heating element and see if it is drawing any power. It is best if you choose the positive (hot) wire. This will answer you question about the heating element going on after the steam boiler is up to pressure and power is then sent to the brew boiler. I would not blame scale for this problem and i don't think I would worry about that at this time. Lets just see what causing the no heat problem. On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Jorge See <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]. >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- > 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. > -- 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.
