by ethorson on Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:56 am tomagos wrote:Raz mentioned he replaced is timer button with a toggle switch. My time is acting badly. When its time is up, the motor goes into 1/3 speed and continues grinding... Since the timer was not really doing a good job anyway, I am interested in how Rax modified the grinder.
The timer has a solid state switch (triac) that has probably failed and turned into a diode. Consequently a half-wave DC voltage is being provided to the motor, which is not a good thing. I agree with Jim that you should not use it until the problem is fixed.
I use my Tranquilo for drip coffee grinding since I got my Mazzer Mini and have noticed a lot of fines produced when the hopper runs out. The resulting brew turns out to be pretty nasty tasting.
