No Coffee
Originally uploaded by Spinnaker007.
Met up with Mike at Intelly during lunch. He came armed with a digital multimeter tester, and the thermal fuse turned out to be okay. I will have to test the heating element on my own per Mike's instructions (that should be comical). Pulling home espresso has to wait a bit longer...
I never thought I would get my hands on the innards of an espresso machine, that is for the hardcore coffeegeeks. I am being forced to do it, just because I don't want to pay the tall or venti shipping charges...I dunno...
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One small peice of good news- I checked my bad heating element. It showed as an open circuit. That means it should be pretty obvious if that is the problem with your machine.
I believe a good element should read about 10 ohms. If your element is bad, the meter won't change when you touch the meter probes to the two heating element terminals. (Everything off and unplugged of course!!)
Unplug first...Unplug first...
Hey Mike, thanks for you help thus far...We will get this baby up and running..
It's all a part of the business investigation ;-) It is cool that once you know your way around (even generally) the machine you'll have a better base for the important centerpiece of your shop.
-a
I hope LM has GB/5 for dummies! : )
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