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paddy2042

I recently turned on the power on my Compact A 2 group machine after it had been reconditioned only to hear a clicking coming from the right hand side of the machine. The motor did not come on to refill the boiler as it usually does for a few seconds. The right group touch-pad was dead but the left group touch-pad clicked into action but the motor did not. The coffee cup filled from the water pressure I guess. I know the electronics in this machine are a little old fashioned but as each group is acting differently I am wondering if anyone has any idea what may be wrong.

I look forward to some enlightenment (and hopefully a fix)

Patrick

Koffee_Kosmo

First thing I would do is go to Repco and purchase the Repco brand or similar electronics cleaner in the spray can Then use it to clean all the electronics / behind touchpads ect and wire connections It’s dries in a few seconds but it also cleans dirty terminals Further - it won’t damage anything inside your machine KK

Brett_H

Champion KK!

paddy2042

Koffee Kosmo wrote:

First thing I would do is go to Repco and purchase the Repco brand or similar electronics cleaner in the spray can Then use it to clean all the electronics / behind touchpads ect and wire connections It’s dries in a few seconds but it also cleans dirty terminals Further - it won’t damage anything inside your machine KK

It has blown a fuse. There are two boards nearly identical to each other and each has a fuse. This blew on one, and I had it replaced and machine want perfectly: made a coffee and then half hour later died again. There must be something tripping the fuse. Any ideas? Patrick

Koffee_Kosmo

paddy2042 wrote:

It has blown a fuse. There are two boards nearly identical to each other and each has a fuse. This blew on one, and I had it replaced and machine want perfectly: made a coffee and then half hour later died again. There must be something tripping the fuse. Any ideas? Patrick

Same advice applies clean electronics and connections first If that does not solve the issue, you may have a short or debris on a contact causing a short Something out of left field - a board may have a bad track or debris causing a short KK

paddy2042

Koffee Kosmo wrote:

Same advice applies clean electronics and connections first If that does not solve the issue, you may have a short or debris on a contact causing a short Something out of left field - a board may have a bad track or debris causing a short KK

Does the fact that it goes OK for an hour or so: it fill, heats, makes a cup of coffee etc. mean anything? I would have thought a short would blow the fuse immediately. This seems to be something that is happening over the length of an hour or so and then only to one group! Patrick

Koffee_Kosmo

paddy2042 wrote:

Does the fact that it goes OK for an hour or so: it fill, heats, makes a cup of coffee etc. mean anything? I would have thought a short would blow the fuse immediately. This seems to be something that is happening over the length of an hour or so and then only to one group! Patrick

Metal expands with heat so I suppose it’s possible My gut feeling is - the culprit is a micro switch possibly connected in thermostat area controlling the on off sequence of the heating element KK

askthecoffeeguy

yep sounds like it could be the manual switch for the thermostat clicking in and out in theory its not too costly a fix from previous experios good luck and keep us posted! Pat