Been seeing this come up a lot on the DeLonghi machines where the water comes out cold. The first thing I always check are the heater and the thermal fuses on it. Have you all ever done this repair? I'm curious to know if it's almost always the fuses that fail as opposed to the element.
To check the fuses you simply unplug the machine and remove the covers. Under the machine is the heater that you can unscrew to reveal the two fuses. Use a multimeter to test each fuse for continuity. If one of them reads no continuity (as an open circuit) then it's the faulty one and can be replaced. How often do you find that just one of the fuses is bad instead of both? Any reason for this occurrences?
For the replacement fuses I've heard that the original manufacturer ones are rather expensive so maybe using a generic one will work just as well? Also, do you all routinely descale these machines after you replace the fuses to avoid any additional fuse failure?
As someone who purchase these machines relatively regularly I'd think that the heater would last longer than the fuses but thats perhaps the nature of the design of these products.
To check the fuses you simply unplug the machine and remove the covers. Under the machine is the heater that you can unscrew to reveal the two fuses. Use a multimeter to test each fuse for continuity. If one of them reads no continuity (as an open circuit) then it's the faulty one and can be replaced. How often do you find that just one of the fuses is bad instead of both? Any reason for this occurrences?
For the replacement fuses I've heard that the original manufacturer ones are rather expensive so maybe using a generic one will work just as well? Also, do you all routinely descale these machines after you replace the fuses to avoid any additional fuse failure?
As someone who purchase these machines relatively regularly I'd think that the heater would last longer than the fuses but thats perhaps the nature of the design of these products.