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I have the Isomac Tea which has identical internals at the Alba, with the boiler set on 1.5bars I get ample steam power for doing milk drinks, I dropped it back to 1.2 to see what happened and I did lose a fair bit of steam power so I went back to 1.5. If the machine has been sitting for more than 10-15 mins I always do a cooling flush before pulling shots. I am totally happy with the results so far, I have to top up the water tank often but I used to do that with Silvia when I had her so its no big deal to me.
When I was looking at purchasing the machine I was told by different people that it had a 1.4l, 1.3l and 1.2l boiler, I think the 1.2l is the correct size.
Love the pics Oli.
Enjoy your Alba
cheers gm
I sent an email to Isomac last week about the boiler size and received a reply confirming that it is 1.2liters (see below). The importer also called me to confirm this (I must admit, I was pleasantly surprise by the level of customer service and follow up).
By this stage, I had already opened the machine :-)
In practice, the smaller boiler has not been an issue (to me) and it actually means it heats and recover up quicker.
Oli
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From: Isomac Srl [mailto:info@isomac.it]
Sent: Monday, 16 March 2009 18:58
To: Oliver Perroud
Subject: Re: Isomac Alba
Buon Giorno Fabio,
dovresti farmi un favore.
Rispondere a questo signore. La caldaia della Alba è di 1,2 litri e la dimensione della resitenza è mm 22 x 124 1400 w
After a few sleepless nights of research, I finally upgraded my Isomac Zaffiro to an Isomac Alba.
I posted the following "first impression review" including some photos at the following link:
http://drop.io/isomac_alba
Hope this helps those of you who considering the Alba.
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