Good job, thanks for sharing. All our machines will start to fail with these weird sort of age related problems.
I looked at the picture and still couldn't see any blackening. Was it where the spade connected to the switch? Other than that pesky 50% repro - couldn't you debug this with a multimeter? On Friday, September 11, 2020 at 12:30:32 PM UTC-7 MDR wrote: > Hi All, > I recently had a problem where my Brewtus II (+PID) would reach temp, > allow me to pull a shot, then the brew boiler would shut down. This message > is to record the solution for future users > > Of course, the issue was intermittent, happening about 50% of the time, so > difficult to debug. The high limit temp sensor on the boiler seemed to be > the issue, but I couldn't figure out why it only occurred intermittently. > Finally discovered that the spot weld where one of the connector spades > attaches was loose, causing an intermittent connection. In wiggling it > around to troubleshoot, the resistance increased so much that it caused the > joint to blacken - I finally spotted it. > > Link to image - you can barely see the darkened spotweld on the near > connector. > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/xnbodXratDnTN2TM6 > > So, be aware of intermittent connections when you troubleshoot. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/brewtus/3d234457-f861-4bbc-9f26-e86446910055n%40googlegroups.com.
