Hi Mike, thanks so much for this! I will be giving this a go tonight, at the moment i can only dream of a day when hot water will run through ground beans, luckily the trusty Gaggia is still working!
Rich On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 5:08:40 PM UTC+1, Enders13 wrote: > > Rich, > > you can bypass the pressure stat, I had to after mine fell apart while > waiting for a replacement (no I couldn't go without morning cup of Joe!). I > made a wire with a spade connector both ends, the common wire then is > connected to either normally closed or normally open. Second pic, 1 > connects to either 2 or 4. I turned the unit off when swapping out the > connections then back on when done. You can't leave it connected when > giving power to the boiler as it will just keep building. The front demand > light comes on when you activate the switch and pressure should build. Turn > unit off when you reach 1.2 bar and then swap wires back, turn unit on > again. > > On my brewtus only the top 3 connectors are used, the one near the > pressure adjuster is not used. > > I did do it live once and got a shock so be careful. > > > > [image: Inline images 1] > [image: Inline images 2] > > On 4 April 2017 at 13:03, Rich <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> So a further update i am still a little stuck, I dont want to bother the >> WLL guys as I am UK based and cant get the parts through them. I have >> checked the wiring and it all seems fine. Both boilers are good (as far as >> i can tell). I replaced the SSR but this didnt make any difference. I am >> still getting 235ish volts in and nothing out. The light is solid on the >> SSR indicating the PID is telling it to send power to the elements. I still >> get the heating/steam light flicking on at the same time as i hear the >> relay click from the control box. The PID seems to dispay the temp >> correctly (room temp) and has the little blue dot indicating it is sending >> a signal to the SSR. Pump also works fine. My last guess is the control box >> or potentially Pstat. Does anyone know of a way to bypass the Pstat? I am >> guessing this isnt the broken part but it would be nice if its a cheap >> part! As a side note it worked once last week, steam light came on and it >> all started heating up. Are intermittant issues generally associated with >> the control box? >> >> thanks to anyone that can help! >> >> Rich >> >> ps i bypassed both hilimit switches so unfortunately its not either of >> these >> >> On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 9:58:09 AM UTC+1, Rich wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I hope someone can help as i am a little stuck! I think i have >>> potentially googled everything possible and I think my girlfriend will >>> leave me if i spend too much more time fiddling with this machine. I bought >>> an Office Leva DB Rotary model that had a few issues as it was fairly >>> cheap! I am not too bad at fixing things in general and I wanted to learn >>> on the way so thought i would give it a go! >>> >>> I thought i found the issue last week as the capacitor was blown on the >>> circuit board (wahoo 20p fix!), I replaced this and stopped the relay >>> continuously clicking. I now have the dreaded 'very very occasionally she >>> fires up' issue. So the problem is; >>> >>> When i turn on the machine i get the relay click after a couple of >>> seconds. >>> If i turn on the steam boiler at the same time the red LED flashes when >>> the relay clicks. I think this means the controller is saying yes the >>> boiler is full (they are) so heat them up. At this point I guess something >>> is tripping the circuit and there isnt any power going to the heating >>> element. >>> I have checked the hilimit switches (and bypassed them) and i think they >>> are fine. The SSR light remains solid green so I guess that is fine as its >>> trying to say heat the boiler. The PID displays the room temp with a small >>> dot next to it. When i got the machine working the other week it all seemed >>> to work fine, PID was working etc. Only issue was the vacuum release stayed >>> open and was pushing out water (i was going to sort this when i have sorted >>> the current issue) >>> >>> I hope someone can help, I feel like i have checked all the wires for >>> contiunity, I have also checked the boilers and all seems fine. Sorry if >>> this isnt detailed enough, I have a small video I can upload if that helps! >>> >>> Many thanks >>> >>> Rich >>> >> -- >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
