Plumbing a Londinium Compressa
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Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out if it's feasible for me to plumb a Londinium Compressa to my home RO system. After the filters, i have around 2 bar of pressure. I normally drink espresso at the darker side of medium - city+ to full city in roasting terminology. Will this be sufficient pressure? Can i boost this pressure with a pump?
I'm trying to figure out if it's feasible for me to plumb a Londinium Compressa to my home RO system. After the filters, i have around 2 bar of pressure. I normally drink espresso at the darker side of medium - city+ to full city in roasting terminology. Will this be sufficient pressure? Can i boost this pressure with a pump?
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Plumb line pressure for Compressa is for pre-infusion, it is good at 3 bar. But I think 2 bar is also OK as you could tune it by adding one or two second.
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Dipper/boiler fed spring levers do well with the roasts you like using boiler pressure PI which is usually 1.2 bar. I don't see why 2 bar PI would be a problem with the Compressa. Plus you still have the option to grind finer & preinfuse at a higher pressure by holding the lever at the spring engagement point when you lift it after the group fill. With a 1.2 bar boiler pressure this gives you 2.5-3 bar PI so with your Compressa's 2 bar fill pressure you should easily hit 3 bar PI or higher using this method.ShotClock wrote:Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out if it's feasible for me to plumb a Londinium Compressa to my home RO system. After the filters, i have around 2 bar of pressure. I normally drink espresso at the darker side of medium - city+ to full city in roasting terminology. Will this be sufficient pressure? Can i boost this pressure with a pump?
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I agree you will be fine. Though Reiss recommends using up to 6 bar to preinfuse light roasts.
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Thanks a lot for the tips. Having read a little more about the difficulties associated with remineralization for RO water, I'm starting to think this is not as simple a solution as i thought.
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RO water isn't the best for coffee. Do you have a water quality report which indicates a need for RO?
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Thanks, my town's water report is here:
https://concordma.gov/DocumentCenter/Vi ... -Report-CY
We don't have a lot of calcium in the water, but we do have a lot of chloride. Since i understood this to be particularly bad, I have been using RO filtered water with potassium bicarbonate added in the amount suggested by rpavlis. I thought this was a suboptimal but decent enough solution for my current tanked machine.
https://concordma.gov/DocumentCenter/Vi ... -Report-CY
We don't have a lot of calcium in the water, but we do have a lot of chloride. Since i understood this to be particularly bad, I have been using RO filtered water with potassium bicarbonate added in the amount suggested by rpavlis. I thought this was a suboptimal but decent enough solution for my current tanked machine.