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Just a follow up: I still receive these errors sporadically. Spoke with a tech at Chris Coffee and he thinks it's my house line pressure, I have a regulator but have seen some strange numbers from time to time. I'll try to dive under the sink next time I get the error and see what the regulator gaug...

Chris Coffee sent me the new sensor very quickly but since I had left the machine off for about 12 hours and turned it back on it was pretty stable, so I waited to replace the sensor. The last couple of days I noticed when I ran water through the boiler tap the temperature on my group started doing ...

What were your issues? My machine had a "High Temperature Warning" today, I talked to CC and they are sending a replacement part, think he said temperature relay but not sure. When I got to my machine (glad I was home) I shut it off and then restarted, read a temp of 262--it threw the error again. S...

Had another one yesterday, so that's one in about 10 days--much improved from three days in a row when I started the thread. I am using detergent every two weeks with the last (second) time being Monday this week. The clear water backflush is obviously helping; I've switched to backflushing before p...

I replaced my Dream with a GS/3 MP though.... yeah, that would do it :-P It seems to be a sticky valve. I had an error three days in a row when I posted and have been clear water backflushing once a day since and no errors. I had done a detergent backflush and now I'm wondering if my phosphate free...

Anyone having Low Pump Pressure error messages? I've had about 7 in the past month, seem to be getting more frequent. I think I saw a drop in pressure around 8 or 10 seconds then it rose again without tripping the error message--thoughts?

Are you able to get an even extraction and a dry puck? I'm not against putting more coffee in, I just wasn't seeing a flow out of the back third of the basket. The irony is I may have had more issues with the E61 than I realized but having a higher level machine is motivating me to be more discernin...

In my fervor to elevate my skills to match this machine I've spent the morning trying to figure out an issue with pours streaming from the front of the basket rather than the center. Long story short I was overdosing and now that I've corrected that issue (it's still slightly off center but the extr...

Thanks, I hadn't seen that. I'm glad CCS/La Spaziale are so responsive, speaks well of both companies.

I switched from an E61 HX machine to the S1 Dream which I love! When I began using the Dream I noticed the pucks were soupy and had a problem with pressure being released when I removed the PF, did some net surfing and came to the conclusion that wet pucks were common to the La Spaziale machines and...

Thanks for the information! I'm coming from an E61 HX machine and didn't know what I was looking at. Just expanding on a couple of points for us noobs: The screen is in the barbed hose inlet facing the back of the machine, I used an icepick to drag mine out. The easy way to access the discharge outl...