Hi, This is my first post on Coffee Snobs although I have been using it as a resource for a year now. I bought an Expobar Minore III at the beginning of this year. This is also my first machine so youll have to excuse me if I dont sound knowledgeable.
Any way to the problem. Ill try to explain how it happened as best as I can. Firstly I had it on all day yesterday and it was stable and worked just fine. After I had finished for the day I turned the machine off but then remembered I needed to backflush it so I turned it back on. I proceeded to backflush the machine 3 times. After this I took the group handle with the blind filter out of the group and ran water through the group by fully opening the lever and activating the pump. The water came out with much increased pressure like there is too much pressure inside. The PID is reading 92C at this point.
I had a similar problem 2 months ago except the temperature was also going off the scale at 98C to 102C. I was told that this happened because I played around with the PID and set the high point too high and burnt out a heating element. This time around I have not touched the PID, Nor will I ever from now on.
I know now I bit off more than I could chew with this machine being a novice and all so If anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Any way to the problem. Ill try to explain how it happened as best as I can. Firstly I had it on all day yesterday and it was stable and worked just fine. After I had finished for the day I turned the machine off but then remembered I needed to backflush it so I turned it back on. I proceeded to backflush the machine 3 times. After this I took the group handle with the blind filter out of the group and ran water through the group by fully opening the lever and activating the pump. The water came out with much increased pressure like there is too much pressure inside. The PID is reading 92C at this point.
I had a similar problem 2 months ago except the temperature was also going off the scale at 98C to 102C. I was told that this happened because I played around with the PID and set the high point too high and burnt out a heating element. This time around I have not touched the PID, Nor will I ever from now on.
I know now I bit off more than I could chew with this machine being a novice and all so If anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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so i am being pessimistic...
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