My high limit switch looks the same so that's probably not it. Did you check if you have power at the pressurestat?
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 2:59 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I purchased my Expobar Brewtus II as a refurb from Whole Latte Love in > 2009. Living on the Oregon coast far from any repair facilities, I've had > to learn to take care of repairs/replacement parts myself — pumps, relief > valves, pressurestats. I'm not naturally a mechanical wiz, but I've managed > somehow, and my Brewtus has served me well for seven years. > > I got up this morning, turned on the Brewtus, and came back half an hour > later to make my morning big gulp triple cappuccino. Started pulling my > shot — fine — and went to steam my milk/butter/coconut oil concoction (for > Bulletproof Coffee). Nothing. No steam pressure. > > Initially, I thought that perhaps the steam nozzle might be plugged, but > no. Glanced up to see the steam gauge at ZERO. > > It's Saturday (of course — nothing ever breaks during the week, only on > weekends), so I can't get help from WLL. Thought I'd check here first. > > For troubleshooting purposes, everything works but the steam boiler — > water heats up, pump operates, brew boiler pulls a shot at 9.5 bars. Only > the steam boiler is dead. > > Does that indicate a PressureStat failure? I replaced the original > pressurestat in 2012 with a heavier-duty Jaeger PressureStat. I was hoping > it would last forever, and I've had no trouble with it for four years. My > Brewtus has been fine all year right up through yesterday, so this is a > sudden and complete sudden failure of something. Is the pressurestat the > most likely culprit? > > I wondered if perhaps the high-limit switch had tripped, so I looked for > it on both boilers. Curiously, the tiny red reset button on both switches > has sunk into the housing, so there's just a nipple with hole in the switch > on each boiler. Is that OK? > > Any help would be much appreciated. 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
