Grinder won't stop

I had a similar problem
Mine was caused by an "oily" type of coffee beans. Grind was accumulating in the grinder.

I did open the machine and cleaned the grinder physically. At least, try to remove all beans and sucked with a vacuum the interior of the grinder screw.

Good luck

HI

Grinder adjustment set too low. Increase the setting to 18 and try again, after it grinds and starts to brew push the brew to stop the cycle. Repeat the steps again. If it works when it is grinding turn the big knob back down but to a mark 2 higher than you had it before. When the grind gets to fine the ground coffee compacts in the grinder and passage way then you get the message bean hopper empty. Making the grind a little coarser prevents the grinds from compaction. If you are using oily beans (Shiney) they can glue themselves together and cause the same symptoms but the fix is the same. Make it coarser. If it didn't fix the problem you will have to dissassemble the grinder and clean, then readjust.

try this.

hit the external dosage button. Its the button on the top middle that controls when you want to put grinds in from the external shoot.

Do not place any coffee in there. then just press the normal brew button. it should brew more or less a cup of water.

then try brewing a coffee like normal and see if the problem fixes.

this happens because there is a little door in the grinder that hits a microswitch that tells the grinder to stop grinding.

This is supposed to happen when the grinder fills the brew group enough to click the microswitch.

Sometimes it does reverse itself like this.

The only other solution would be to open the grinder up and vaccum all grounds out and vaccum the grind shaft above the brew group on the side.

This will cause the door to go back to normal position.

If it doesn't work after that, the door or microswitch has gone faulty. But that is an extremely rare situation.

Hope this helps.

Try setting the grind to the coarsest setting, if you still have the same problem, check the wire connections to the board, it might have been reversed.

Hi
The grinders run on a timer. If the grinders does not fill the doser in time you will get a light saying no beans. If this happens and there are beans in the hopper push the lever to the largest # and push the brew button again. This will clear the light and it should brew. If it is at the largest # already your beans are probably shiny and there is to much oil in the beans and this is what is clogging the grinder.

Hi Cindy,

Make sure you not get any water in the grinder, if you get water in the grinder then it bean smeary and will not grind the beans.

You have to clean the grinder if you get any moisten in it.

/Mirran

Hi,

try to prime the machine.

Sounds like dosage is too high and grind is too fine.

Rule of thumb with any saeco unit.

Do not grind any finer then 2 or your looking for trouble.

Open grinder, clean it out with a vac. Slapped it back on.

The reason it stops is grind is too fine, and the machine doesn't have enough pressure to pass threw the grinds, creates back pressure in the machine and the unit failsafes after a certain amount of time with and pressure.

Back pressure is what blew your boiler.

Push the coffe brew button again. It should take right off and grind again.

in the self test does it flush the unit ? If not you have to prime the unit by allowing it to pump hot water through the frothing valve. Open the valve and the pump should pulse water out. After this the machine should indicate it is in the operating mode for coffee