Hi all,
I have a problem with my Silvia’s water flow/debit. [smiley=cry.gif] Over the last couple of days I have noticed that I’m getting less and less water through the group, I did a de-scale and clean and there was a slight improvement short term, but the water flow has just about stopped now. If I prime the boiler by opening the steam and turning on the group switch, I’m getting quite good flow through the steam/hot water pipe. If I close the steam/hot water I get very little flow through the group and the pump sounds as though it is labouring under pressure.
If anyone knows what the problem is, any help would be greatly appreciated?
Some time ago I read about someone having a pump problem that turned out to be a diode short, or something similar, any way I can’t find the thread/post now. I mention this because I opened the machine up and there are some scorch marks on some of the wires going to the pump.
Thanks
Bruce
I have a problem with my Silvia’s water flow/debit. [smiley=cry.gif] Over the last couple of days I have noticed that I’m getting less and less water through the group, I did a de-scale and clean and there was a slight improvement short term, but the water flow has just about stopped now. If I prime the boiler by opening the steam and turning on the group switch, I’m getting quite good flow through the steam/hot water pipe. If I close the steam/hot water I get very little flow through the group and the pump sounds as though it is labouring under pressure.
If anyone knows what the problem is, any help would be greatly appreciated?
Some time ago I read about someone having a pump problem that turned out to be a diode short, or something similar, any way I can’t find the thread/post now. I mention this because I opened the machine up and there are some scorch marks on some of the wires going to the pump.
Thanks
Bruce

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. Definitely a quality control problem at Rancilio but usually easily fixed once identified.
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