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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:11 pm
by scottwhite
ok learned something new today.

there is not enough room on the handfill board for pre infusion, so as cakey says if you really want that you could set up another button to do that.

on the 2 group machines there is a wash cycle facility avaialable as well as pre infusion, but I have never seen anyone make use of either of those functions, which I think is a commercial decision, but we wont go into that.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:57 am
by mo go gear
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:07 pm
by phil2spill
scottwhite wrote:ok learned something new today.

there is not enough room on the handfill board for pre infusion, so as cakey says if you really want that you could set up another button to do that.

Thanks for the info. If it can just be programmed-in, does that mean pre-infusion isn't a hardware thing and it's just a case of a time delay or running the pump slower or something? (sorry, don't know diddly-squat about commercials :) )

scottwhite wrote:on the 2 group machines there is a wash cycle facility avaialable as well as pre infusion, but I have never seen anyone make use of either of those functions, which I think is a commercial decision, but we wont go into that.

Sensible decision :wink:

PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:20 am
by CakeBoy
It's literally just a very small amount of water allowed to penetrate the puck before the main flow begins, so a quick on and off before going on again for the extraction itself. It's just ons and offs really either manual or automated by a processor.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:25 pm
by phil2spill
Ahh, OK thanks