Mine always buzzed for a few seconds and it was the vibe pump. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Ben McCafferty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does this sound like a sticking solenoid to anyone else out there besides > me? Or perhaps a failing vibe pump? > b > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 26, 2017, at 11:59 AM, Howard Griffin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have had my Brewtus III-V (vibration pump) for almost seven years. Its > usual behavior upon startup has been to buzz for a few seconds (5-10 > seconds) and then start to heat up. The buzzing usually terminates with a > very brief uptick in volume before stopping. A typographical representation > might look like this: [click on] rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRR [noise stops machine > begins to heat up]. Sometimes there would be no buzzing at all upon turning > it on and it would begin to heat up right away. This was its normal > behavior until recently. > > > > Now, when I turn it on the buzzing frequently goes on for a very long > time—up to three or four minutes before resolving in an uptick in volume, > like this: > > > > [click on] rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr > rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRR > [noise stops machine begins to heat up]. Sometimes it still starts up with > no noise and begins to heat up right away. > > > > Is something about to fail on the machine? What should I check? Any advice > would be appreciated. > > > > Howard > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
