Hi all

I am looking for an appropriate thermometer to measure water temperature in the grouphead of a La San Marco HX machine. Does anyone have any experience with these machine, or any recommendations for appropriate thermometers?

To be clear, I'm not looking at PID'ing - just measuring water temp in the grouphead.

Thnx

Sam

Does that machine have an E-61 group? If so, you can use one of Eric's thermometer adaptors. If not, you might have to put something together yourself and attach it to a cheap PID or digital thermometer.

no, i'm fairly sure it is not an e-61 grouphead.

Will this work?

http://www.espressoparts.com/prod...com_Exclusive.html

Sam,

If you're handy at all, you could find a screw that attaches to the grouphead along the brewpath (most have one to cover the hole they drill to make the brew path), and order a thermocouple and compression fitting that will fit in this space. It's often a fairly trivial, inexpensive operation--a cheap PID readout is about $40, a thermocouple another $20-40, and the compression fitting ought not be over $10-20.

Note that with the Scace device, you need not only the $275 thermofilter, but you'll also need a Fluke or other thermocouple reading device. It's certainly the best thing out there at simulating shots, but if you're looking for something to use all the time to help you flush more consistently and constantly monitor brew temperature (with a guessed offset), you may find it irritating, and obviously rather expensive for something you may find you don't want.

I'm really not sure what the grouphead profile looks like - the whole thing is encased so I can't see it.

The machine is a 95-Series Sprint E.