Hi!

I have a La Pavoni Europiccola from the 1990s. It's a European 230V model (and, by the way, bears a Saeco badge on the base where the La Pavoni badge would normally go).

The machine has a red rocker switch and a green light that comes on whenever the heating element is doing it's job. Other than that, there is nothing visual that indicates that the machine is on but not heating, which somehow bothers me.

When I took the machine and the switch apart I discovered that there is a small lamp inside the red rocker switch that could be used as a "power" light. If I wanted to do so I would need to run a wire from the unused terminal of the switch to the point where the wire from the pressurestat connects to the power cord. The following two graphics illustrate this:
This is the wiring scheme of the machine I have: http://www.pavoniexpress.com/neweur230.jpg
This is what I'm thinking of (but the diagram is for 120V machines): http://www.pavoniexpress.com/neweuro.jpg

So here's the question: Is there any good reason why one would not connect the lamp inside the rocker switch? (What was La Pavoni's intention?)

Thanks

A short follow-up: I did it and it works. More about it can be read on my blog: http://imrich.net/2011/01/modding-a-la-pavoni-europiccola-espresso-machine/