My BES920 is not pumping water through the group head or hot water outlet. Steam is OK. Solenoid valve looks clean and is not buzzing. There is no pump noise at all, just silence, both when i press a shot button, or switch it on. Got error code 08. Will a new pump fix it? 7 years old 8660 shots on the clock.
I've have searched for fix ad nauseam without seeing a definitive fix. thanks.
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Leroy C the threaded fitting you mentioned is only on the path of the water between the pump and the brew bpiler (including both fittings of the HX path through the steam boiler), so a total of 3 out of maybe 20 fittings. Hopefully they're using these as tests to then upgrade all the steam boiler fittings as these are the ones that cause problems. -
The main improvement that I know of is the way that the numerous nylon tubes that run to and from the two boilers are connected to the boilers. on my older BES920 they are connected using a circlip with a silicone boot over the top. This was never a particularly good design with the connections being less secure than necessary and also more difficult to service due to the boot which often got stuck to the boiler due to the heat. They are now mostly connected using a threaded fitting from what I've been told. Apparently some of the electrical parts have been improved as well, but I don't know the details on that. There have been some other minor changes such as the auto shutoff now happening after 20min and being permanent rather than optional, but otherwise it is functionally very much the same. I've done the basic version of the Slayer mod that uses the hot water line and it's both easy to do and worthwhile in my opinion. -
Does anyone know of any design or internal component upgrades Breville has made between my BES980 Oracle purchased in 2015 and Breville dual boiler bought today which I think is the BES920?
I’ve had mine the just over 5 years and had a bunch of repairs in the last 2 years from a serviceman and wondering if selling the oracle for a current model BDB would be worthy?
I have a eureka specialita grinder which I’ve been using for the past couple of months so I don’t need to use the oracles built in grinder anymore.
if the manual milk steaming on the BDB is better than the oracles manual mode in milk steaming then might be worth it?
is there a difference in steam tips or functionality?
my upgrade path thoughts were going for an e61 with flow control but then thought an electronically heated group machine would be better given the oracles features and now I’m thinking BDB and doing a slayer mod on it would be better use of my money…Leave a comment:
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