We had an R58 visit for a day this week for a little remedial work.
This one had been dropped in transit to Australia and was looking pretty sad when it arrived. Phil's brief was to see what he could do.
Looked much better (but not perfect due to a bend in the base of the chassis) when it left.
I haven't seen too many pics of the internals, so I grabbed a few quick phone snaps while it was open so that those considering one can see what they're buying. The internal build quality displays Rocket's attention to detail. Love the arrangement of PID and SSR's and other elements which will make for easy repairs if anything does go wrong.
As we had heard and seen with a prototype, this grey one did not perform well as the PID logic is hugely flawed. When the user requests brew and/or steam, the PID simply sits there and does nothing.... ..... .... .... for over 10 seconds. In this time steam falls away to nothing at all. Ultimately, it's way less temp stable in this configuration than a HX.
Thankfully, our Aussie importer rejected this and AU spec machines perform as we would expect of a machine of this calibre. This has been the reason why Australian machines have been delayed by almost a year.
First stocks of the good ones are due to arrive sometime in March.
Chris




This one had been dropped in transit to Australia and was looking pretty sad when it arrived. Phil's brief was to see what he could do.
Looked much better (but not perfect due to a bend in the base of the chassis) when it left.
I haven't seen too many pics of the internals, so I grabbed a few quick phone snaps while it was open so that those considering one can see what they're buying. The internal build quality displays Rocket's attention to detail. Love the arrangement of PID and SSR's and other elements which will make for easy repairs if anything does go wrong.
As we had heard and seen with a prototype, this grey one did not perform well as the PID logic is hugely flawed. When the user requests brew and/or steam, the PID simply sits there and does nothing.... ..... .... .... for over 10 seconds. In this time steam falls away to nothing at all. Ultimately, it's way less temp stable in this configuration than a HX.

Thankfully, our Aussie importer rejected this and AU spec machines perform as we would expect of a machine of this calibre. This has been the reason why Australian machines have been delayed by almost a year.
First stocks of the good ones are due to arrive sometime in March.
Chris

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