Originally posted by simonsk8r
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G'day simonsk8r
I know exactly how you feel about "if it crashes then it crashes".
I largely bought my second Vario as a spare after reading so many negative reports about reliability. Needless to say, after a few years it has been really useful when providing different roasts for different tastes (especially at parties) so it was not a total waste. Hence the third one when a near & dear friend bemoaned the need to go permanently onto decaf.
I have already decided that if my DE1 goes terminal I will buy a V1.3 as a replacement while John sorts out the current one - which I feel sure he will for a reasonable fee and / or warranty.
If you are walking into an early version of any technology with your eyes open, you can expect a few glitches. Oh, I had forgotten one - when my gas assisted solar hot water system was fairly new we had one of Bentley's infamous "willy willies" which blew the "tabbed heater doors" open and the gas pilot out. Morris White's tech came over, scratched his head for a while ("I didn't expect that" was his comment) and put small barrel bolts on the doors to stop it happening again. They also retrofitted all the other ones for nix. Other than that, the system is 36 years old and untouched - pretty impressive for a prototype! Those "tabbed heater doors" are exactly the same design as a friend's 150 litre Vulcan gas heater tank today. They only fail if you have them on an exposed roof in a windy place - like my old house at Bentley... Some problems in new tech are just not easily foreseeable.
Glad your Sette Wi is working well for you, hopefully the early Sette teething problems are now history.
Enjoy your cuppa - I am currently savouring a stunning Ecuadorian medium roasted SO as I write this.
TampIt

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