My Breville BES860 suddenly began diverting all water to the hot water/steamer, and never anything to the group head, so I figured a solenoid had given out. Indeed it had. I replaced the entire assembly, only to discover the reason the original solenoid (the 3 way diverter) gave out was because it obviously overheated due to the machine energising the solenoid all the time. Even with the machine turned off (i.e. as soon as I plug in the machine, power button on the machine not having been pressed) the solenoid will engage and rapidly heat up. All water is now, of course, being diverted into the group head no matter what function is selected.
My thoughts are that the solenoid may have shorted out and destroyed something on the main PCB. Has anyone else experienced this before? As a hack I'm thinking of just installing a switch so that I can manually engage the 3-way diverter before pressing the 1 or 2 cup button, and then switching it off once a cup is poured. I don't really want to spend another $200 on a replacement PCB (which may of may not fix the problem), and similarly don't want to throw out an otherwise perfectly good machine.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
David
My thoughts are that the solenoid may have shorted out and destroyed something on the main PCB. Has anyone else experienced this before? As a hack I'm thinking of just installing a switch so that I can manually engage the 3-way diverter before pressing the 1 or 2 cup button, and then switching it off once a cup is poured. I don't really want to spend another $200 on a replacement PCB (which may of may not fix the problem), and similarly don't want to throw out an otherwise perfectly good machine.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
David

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