Yeah, I seem to remember someone stating that the two neutrals are in fact connected to each other somewhere near the control box - it's something I'm planning to trace some day. I'm curious how common internal shorting is... anyone have experience with this? Good point. I was thinking of ways to re...

Yup - the switch always works, EXCEPT when this issue occurs. (However: I've only done these tests with my new pressurestat - I didn't check to see what happened with the old one.) The issue only happens every couple of months - so I'll probably have to wait a bit to do your suggested tests, but I'l...

I'm occasionally hitting overpressure events with my Expobar Leva DB (aka Brewtus). The usual explanation is a faulty pressurestat, so I replaced the pressurestat but the issue is still happening - and based on my observations there does actually seem to be an issue outside of the pressurestat... I ...

Reporting back on my machine:it started at 0 bar when cold, went up to around 8 bar when hot (my OPV is set to around 8 bar). I didn't monitor what the OPV was doing: my OPV is routed back to the tank, so it would be hard to see if anything is coming - but I suspect it

I don't think the pressure rise is unexpected (although I must say I've never watched mine closely - and I also have the vibe pump version of this machine which will be configured differently) - you have hot water being heated in a closed system, pressure will necessarily increase. If this thread is...

Note that you are only a single datapoint. Meanwhile I can find lots of datapoints of failures (mostly fixed to be fair, but indeed - failures). And my Vario cannot even hold a consistent grind size between multiple espresso shots, which is rather disappointing. Perhaps they aren't fragile (except f...

They are being tight lipped about it (can't blame them) - but I suspect it's also trickier with the Flat and Max: it sounds like both burrs are likely to be coupled in the MC4, which presumably works because of the conical speed (somewhere around 100RPM?). Flat runs up to 800 RPM, Max up to 400RPM, ...

As owner of both a Kafatek Max and Baratza Vario, there's no way those grinders can be compared. The Monolith is bombproof, and if/when the motor dies in 40 years I can't imagine I'll have any issues attaching some kind of motor (even if it doesn't look as nice). Warranty is not even something I'm w...

But for the purposes of this thread, that's proof that a bunch of people did indeed manage to buy one . Now I'm yet to see anyone receive an Ultra from Levercraft (and the ordering process direct from source seems a lot trickier, hence isn't that viable for most people), and the EG1 is also apparently

Citation needed? I had to wait a few months for my Monolith, but I had absolutely no trouble getting one. But that's probably a good point: I doubt Denis cares - he is fully booked with grinder production already, and doesn't want to compromise on quality hence no increased production. He wants peop...