Sadly, a 220V line isn't in the cards in the near future, so I got a transformer rated for 1500W. That seems to be working pretty well. Anyway, I have a few first impressions, but I'm going to try to get my head around the grinder before I go on about it too terribly much. It's certainly quite obvious that it holds just a tiny bit of grinds compared to the Robur (or any other big Mazzer), both in terms of its grind chamber and its exit chute. I am extremely skeptical of comments that it only holds 0.5 grams, but I'm pretty sure it's less than 4 grams, which is quite decent, especially considering that the size of the chute is paired with the speed of the thing--I expect purging about 4-5 grams will clear the thing almost completely.

Here's the business end of the grinder; the top burr fits into the chamber flush, i.e. the chamber is essentially as narrow as it could be in terms of radius. The sweepers are also much shorter than my Robur's. There's a ton of polished metal all over the place...


And it has 6 sweepers rather than the average grinder's 3. That's interesting.

You can find my first few pictures of the grinder in the flickr set that I've made for it... more to come soon, no doubt. I'll probably start a new thread on the Nino when I'm ready, as It's more appropriate, I think, to keep this thread on topic...