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Agreed. Since I last posted, I disconnected the input pairs to the SSR one at a time and found that the steam boiler heats up even in the absence of input signals. When I disconnected the output pairs of the SSR, the steam boiler stopped heating. I did not do a swap but I am fairly certain that a SS...

I'm still learning about this and I have found out there are Triacs and then there are solid state relays. I don't see any triac boards inside my machine but I do see solid state relays in there. I will troubleshoot further and try to determine if the SSR for the steam boiler has gone bad.

So since my last post, I replaced the high limit switch. I noticed that if I bypassed the high limit switch the GFCI would not trip so I went ahead and replaced it. Upon doing so, the GFCI outlet does not trip. The overpressure issue still exists. What I noticed is that upon plugging in the machine,...

Since my post I opened the vacuum breaker and do see that the boiler is filled with water now. This means that upon starting the first time, the boiler may have tried to heat up dry. As far as my understanding goes, that shouldn't have happened. Perhaps that initial cycle of dry heat my have created...

I purchased a 10 year old used Mini Vivaldi 2 recently with a known issue (I did purchase at a deep discount to offset the risks). It came with a 15A/20A converter. I planned to use it with the converter as I don't have the 20A outlet. The 15/20A switch does not have a label but it's set to the posi...