This thread created for owners of the the Digital Macap M4D/M5D to share use and care tips...
Seems that Macap have just included standard M4 manuals with their grinders and no specific instructions (or instructions in Italian if youre lucky :
) for the digital side of things.
Here is what I did with mine:
To program:
•Hold the big silver button down for at least 5 seconds. This will take you into program mode
•Rotate the button and you will be presented with a number of options, single, double, continuous, language, dose counter, exit
•Select your chosen option by pressing once and then rotating the button to set the appropriate value and then press again to lock in
•Rotate through to “exit” and then press again to leave program mode…
With mine, I firstly navigated through to continuous mode and selected “on”. This allowed me to use the grinder in continuous mode, dose as I normally do and set the grind. Once that was done and using a Giotto, I set the single grind time to 5.7 sec. To dose a double, I grind a single, collapse it to create headspace and then add another single. Tamp as per usual and go for it.
You should find that only small changes are required as your coffee ages or when you change bean. I have so far varied my grind time by 0.1 sec and particle size by about a notch up and down.
*NB- Macap ship these grinders with the grind set extremely fine. For micrometric owners, I recommend that you start 20 full turns coarser than factory setting and dial in from there. For stepped grinders, like mine, I adjusted the blades of my empty grinder until they touched and then started ¼ turn of the collar coarser.
Hope that helps!
Chris
Seems that Macap have just included standard M4 manuals with their grinders and no specific instructions (or instructions in Italian if youre lucky :
) for the digital side of things.Here is what I did with mine:
To program:
•Hold the big silver button down for at least 5 seconds. This will take you into program mode
•Rotate the button and you will be presented with a number of options, single, double, continuous, language, dose counter, exit
•Select your chosen option by pressing once and then rotating the button to set the appropriate value and then press again to lock in
•Rotate through to “exit” and then press again to leave program mode…
With mine, I firstly navigated through to continuous mode and selected “on”. This allowed me to use the grinder in continuous mode, dose as I normally do and set the grind. Once that was done and using a Giotto, I set the single grind time to 5.7 sec. To dose a double, I grind a single, collapse it to create headspace and then add another single. Tamp as per usual and go for it.
You should find that only small changes are required as your coffee ages or when you change bean. I have so far varied my grind time by 0.1 sec and particle size by about a notch up and down.
*NB- Macap ship these grinders with the grind set extremely fine. For micrometric owners, I recommend that you start 20 full turns coarser than factory setting and dial in from there. For stepped grinders, like mine, I adjusted the blades of my empty grinder until they touched and then started ¼ turn of the collar coarser.
Hope that helps!
Chris



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