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by Bombcup » Sat May 14, 2011 11:21 pm
I need to run an espresso machine and autofill water boiler from a tank. Anyone see any problems running flojet > accumulator > splitter to espresso machine and boiler?
Relatively low traffic site so demand for both machines at once shouldn't be a big deal.
Also should it be flojet > filter > accumulator or flojet > accumulator > filter?
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by kingseven » Sun May 15, 2011 9:37 pm
The flojet should have the throughput for that. I'd probably run flojet > filter > splitter > accumulator then espresso machine on one side, and split to the boiler on the other.
The boiler fill will have no issue if the machine is drawing water (minimal volume draw when pulling shots) but the machine may not like a sudden drop in pressure when the boiler fills - hence the accumulator positioning that way. (I could well be totally wrong on this...)
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by Bombcup » Sun May 15, 2011 10:42 pm
Makes a lot of sense, that had not occurred to me, cheers James.
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by Bombcup » Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:42 am
Just in case anyone stumbles upon this in future this installation works great. Never got round to buying an accumulator but all is well.
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