NESPRESSO ESSENZA MINI COFFEE MACHINE - Not Working - Trying to FIX
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2021
- Hi, here we have a coffee maker which is not working. It powers on, but no water is pumped through it. I purchased it faulty on eBay, let's see if it can be fixed.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Q: What 4 letter English word can be written upside down, forward or backwards, and can still be read normally from left to right? Hint, it is when written as CAPITALS
@Fix it Phil Spoiler
Good attempt Phil, but SEES doesn't read correct when upside down. The 'E' is wrong. So it needs to look the same upside down as it does the right way up. For example 'O' looks the same 😁👍👍
ITS OOOO
@@Mezo_bezo XD
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Nespresso coffee machine repair? Now that's my cup of tea... 😁
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That joke takes the (rich tea) biscuit.
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I've just been given a broken one of these! I haven't had time to look at it yet, but it's very possibly going to be the same fault! 😊
It will be interesting to see Steve. At least you won't be testing the fuse for capacitance like me!!!!!!
😁 haha, yeah I'll try to remember if I get that far! It looked like a bit of a nightmare to get into, giving me horrible flashbacks to that printer I did! 🙃
@@StezStixFix Yeah, that printer looked horrendous, not only cut knuckle material and numerous clips, but every surface in a 2m radius covered with ink fingerprints!
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its always great to be able to get/give yourself a treat out of the appliance you just fixed!
Me last summer when I restored a microwave and got to cook up a nice meal with it after all my hard work to test it out. So satisfying and shows it doesnt have to be a throwaway society afterall!
Keep going strong Vincent!
Your channel proves that anybody could try to fix things
Your what inspired me to repair things in my house
That first thing you took out is a flow meter, that is how it senses how much coffee to pour. It measures how much water went through by spinning the flow blades with a magnet near the hal effect sensor and by counting how many pulses it senses.
Thanks Thomas 👍
Hi Vince. Just wanted to say 'Hi' and let you know that I've been watching your videos for just over a year now. They're truly fascinating and I've learned a lot. You've inspired me to do my own repairs around the house. So far, I've managed to fix an Echo Dot (faulty speaker connection) and soldered a new jack onto a set of DJ headphones.
This week I made my first 'faulty', eBay purchase and bought a Stanton RM3s Mixer. Description is 'possible spill damage & no power'. Cannot wait to get involved.
All the best Vince. Keep up the great work - Terry.
When you were leaning in to look for the pump, I leaned in closer to my monitor to look for it too. Hahaha. Talk about an engaging video.
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣👍👍
@@Mymatevince I have a tassimo used every single day but it stops and shows a water empty light if its empty only thing is when I put water in to the tank it dribbles out when I'm filling it up as I don't remove the water tank because it's hard to
I want you to know that thanks to your video I have just fixed my little (sentimental one) nespresso coffee machine. Thank you!!! ♥
I bought one of these about a year ago and wondered how it works. Now I know! I don't use it much for the same reasons as you've discovered, the capsules are quite expensive.
Great. Mine doesn't have the same problem, it just pumps out more water into the drip tray than coffee, so I wanted to open it up to see what's what. This video is exactly what I needed to have the confidence to dismantle (and, of course, reassemble) it.
Thanks a lot
After my machine popped out a day as well, I took your vid as an instruction. I replaced the thermal fuse of my machine. Recognized a broken SMD on the plating later. Ordered a new platine (called electronic board), which enabled to switch the machine on again. But the pump refrained to work. Lastly I ordered a new pump as well. Applied it today: Eureka! The machine works again.
All in all, almost as expensive as buying a second-hand one, but I learned a hell of stuff...
You made that possible. Thanks a million, Vince!
I got given a tassimo machine 3 years ago for Xmas, its been used everyday one of the best things ever. Didnt drink coffee at all until I got that. Now it my go to hot drink.
Great work Vince!
Always love when a small thing breaks and you can fix it with 5 quid part.
Cheers for fixing this machine and speading the word.
These My Mate VINCE videos are always so inspiring. Well done again! Really crazy that a component worth few quids can make a device worth hundreds of pounds/euros completely useless. From an ecological standpoint this is exactly what should be done more in this world we live in.
used to be like that in the past, would say 60s 70s all devices worth somethign were made servicable/repairable however recent world economy focused on purely consuming / buying new things got rid of that idea, really shamefull as all we do is only producing more waste for world
Very good tutorial, i had an issue with mine, same model, as I have very hard water it was obstructed is several positions. unplugging every tube and checking all the components as shown in the video is a useful trick. Using a declacification kit is always a plus, if not having one of thouse around, a good soak in vinegar overnight of the parts does the trick(specially with the flowmeter and the filter dish) 10/10
Mine had just broke. It was very helpful to see this clip. When you know what to look for it was easy to check what happened to the one I have. And bingoooo… To check termal fuse there is no need to disassemble everything. Top and back is enough for replacing the fuse eigher. Great video. Thank you.
Brilliant! I had exactly the same fault in my machine! Fixed with your help!
I have fixed a few of these , what I did to fix them was to put a rubber washer around the pump intake to make a proper seal ...then you need a squirt bottle or empty water bottle (whatever fits better) with your bottle filled with (distilled water) place over the pump intake with the rubber washer seal.....then turn on the machine and select and start your shot whilst squeeze your bottle into the pump intake at the same time.
Once the machine starts taking on water stop , refill water bin and run a few shots to test.
Thanks for the superb explanation! I managed to exchange the thermal fuse and it works again.
Oh nice, great wee machine.
i used to work in their customer service a few years ago.
Definitely blew the TF running it with no water.
Yes pods can be very wasteful but if you buy from them direct they give you recycle bags for the used pods and they recycle them .
hope you keep the machine ,its one of the better models
Love the fact you are not really a coffee drinker and you just got it to have a tinker - hopefully the great tasting coffee will win you over
Excellent! Very enjoyable! Nightmare those darn plastic clips!!!
Thanks mate 🤣 They're a proper pain!
Thank you Vince! your video is one of the only ones showing the whole process! It really helped me fix my EN85.b essenza mini, even though it's not exactly like yours.
I have one of these, makes 3 to 4 lungos a day. Interesting to see how it works and and if it should fail I am confident to take it apart now. Great vid, love the variation in items on your channel.
Thanks Sebastian 👍👍
@Klippy you are indeed lucky. My wife used to travel a lot especially pre covid and almost every hotel would have a Nespresso machine.
When covid restrictions finally ended about 2 years ago, we bought a Essenza Mini (along with 300 pods) for our home. It never worked properly. We googled several sites, tried descaling it, resetting it, pressed every button combination that was mentioned. We called Nespresso, spent more on service than we spent on the new machine but no luck. We made a total of 10 cups of coffee after maybe a grad total of 6-7 hours of trying.
Finally the Nespresso machine and 290 pods ended up being gifted to a electronics and plastic recycling center and we swore never to buy ANYTHING from Nespresso ever again.
There are now solid state temperature switch which can act like a thermal fuse except that when the temperature goes back to normal, continuity is re-established. With a thermal fuse, once temperature exceeds the specs, continuity is cut off and one has to replace it. I had an old rice cooker which "eats" thermal fuses until I replaced it with a temperature switch. They are about the same size.
Thanks vince been waiting for a coffee maker one!
Hi Vince, was busy fixing same, your clip was helpful, I noted that yours was heating up but no working pump. I'd replaced the green printed electronic plate, sadly, it wasn't the cause. I almost bought a new pump and a few fuses but thought, let me test the pump by connecting it directly so not through the machine, but with two wires. It turned out to be working. I then realised since my thermoblock did not get hot at all, that it must be broken.
Got a new one, and while installing it, I discovered the old one was hard to remove as the thick rubbers (two) one either side of the thermo, had melted to the thermo, I had to drill out the largest hole, and finally got the back cover off, so from that I knew the thermo had become very, very hot.
Connected new thermo, tested, and machine worked.
Conclusions: 1) if the thermo works but the pump does not, it is highly likely that the pump is damaged in some way, like your one was, with blown fuse 2) If the thermo does not work ''the pump will not switch on'', therefore one should never assume the pump is broken if it has not been tested separately. I bought a few secondhand machines (10 euros each), different ones, online, and was able to exchange some of the parts. Nespresso Essenza Mini uses the same thermoblock and pump as the KRUPS XN110B and other models too.
Congratulations! Thanks to your tutorial step by step, I repaired my Nespresso machine. My best compliments, and THANK YOU.
I remember roughly 20 years ago Guinness finally came across the Atlantic to the United States there was big fanfare on TV how wonderful Guinness is with American news reporters going to English taverns and pubs who sold guinness asking brits how great guinness was and nothing but praise. My dad who’d been to Britain warned me that Guinness was terrible and how men would force a smile while drinking it making a sour face. I tried it and promptly poured it into the yard where the grass turned yellow and died. Note that Guinness has really taken off in the US since and many Americans love it. I myself do like guinness after I’ve already become drunk it goes down like water but does leave a nice taste on the drunken tongue. I mentioned this because I was thinking the same thing about the stout bitter beer as the first cup of coffee and you mentioned it.
Finally a device that I own that I can fix if it breaks! Thanks Vince!
I know I'm an "old bugga" but coffee machine that has a factory reset! What an age we live in! Interesting fix, Keep up the great videos Vince
Hi vince it's just like mine if you hold the buttons down during filling small or large you should be able to set the level of water that flows through release button when it's at the level you want it. Awesome video at least I will know what to do if mine brakes.
Wait til this video goes public Vince… You’ll be bombarded with coffee advice, I’m sure. I went with the Tassimo system… well, it was given to me. Highlight of lockdown has been working from my home office and having the little machine and a selection of pods behind me. Definitely one of the best gadgets in my house.
They are very addictive, even the little pods look such high quality. I find myself making time each day to have a little coffee!!!!! I've had a full size faulty coffee machine waiting to be looked at for over a year. I have the motivation to do it now. Cheers Garry 👍👍👍
The motor is open is probably the thermal fuse is broken/open. Most household machine had a thermal fuse to protect against heat and fire. That thing looking like a capacitor is the thermal fuse. If it's open then you need to replace it.
Great fix for a really nice little coffee machine, excellent repair.
Nice repair, you could use some needle nose pliers on the leads to draw away the heat while soldering the thermal fuse, Thermal fuses has a life span the repeated cycling kills the fuse after sometime
Thanks for the info and tip AR 👍👍
even i feel satisfied hearing the vibration wow you such an incredible troubleshooter.
I had one with a similar problem(water leaking from the bottom) that I fixed by just moving a tube a little tighter, and only yesterday ended up selling it
Can't wait for the next coffee break fix.
I had one of these with the same issue. It was such a ball ache to get apart I threw it in the bin. I've never seen such an unrepairable device in my entire life.
great video, helped me repair my machine. The thermal fuse was also blown, never would have thought about it without you :)
Usually you clamp the lead to heatsink the heat traveling up to the part.
The water column of the tank usually positive feeds the pump, ie, primes it.
Great fix vince surely was an interesting one as a coffee lover and loving to repair electronics I truly enjoyed this video I never knew about a thermal fuse so this was a great video keep up the amazing work
I love my coffee and this makes me happy and it's very satisfying to see it working pretty much perfect good work with this one Vince you did a great job with it another massive thumbs up from me.
Great repair taking much thought. Really needed a cup of coffee half way thru. Hmm you now can.👍
Nice video again bud, these thermal fuses fail quite a bit, its the same reason why alot of rice cookers fail. A very simple fix for the rice cooker too if you know what to look for.
Vinces sense of humor is priceless now we ate gonna be checking your hands in the future to see about rhat coffee addiction lol and ya this stuff is expensive my wife loves her coffee machines this is why I love Amazon well another good video
These machines seem to all go bad in some way. Great job diagnosing and fixing this electrical issue.
Was screaming Nooooo! at you when you said "solder it in". The clue is in the word 'thermal'. 🤣 Still, good learning experience and you had a pack of 5 fuses to play with.
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You just saved another coffee machine.
Excellent description and an easy fix.
But they should have created better connectors for the fuse. Also did the wrap around and solder trick with the extra tip to cool the fuse.
That deserves a 🍺 😉👍🏻
Keep up the good work
Thank you Jeroen, very kind of you👌👍👍👍👍
Wow, great job 👍 fixing that mini coffee machine.
Nice. Just for ref, anything subject to vibration gets crimped electrical joints and not soldered. This mainly why that thermal fuse was crimped in. It is also why car electrics use crimp connectors, as solder joints break with vibration. A good crimp or wire wrap connection is just as good as soldering believe it or not.
Impressive, great deductive abilities!
You spend ages trying to get into it. You have to take it apart slowly and carefully incase you ruin it. Then its all so complicated once you get inside and see all the things you are familiar with but they don't seem to fit together like you are used to, give it a good fiddle, blow in some holes, suck in other places, work out the best way to get your movement detected, then when you think you are done work out how to get it all back together give it a good run and you end up with a YEEEESSSSSSSS. Reminds me of something cant think what ;-)
I had this problem so much with my Tassimo - I just ran the cleaning program with a decalcifier tablet in it and it fixed it every time 😂🙏
decalcifier can't repair thermal fuses ;-)
you really should consider using distilled water or at least RO water in your machine
I prefer my Bialetti Moka pot for coffee than these machines but as far as fixes go that one hit the spot 👍🏻
I admire your patience!
Nice one! I newer saw a coffee machine from the inside and all that stopped it frommworking was a tiny little fuse. As they are mostly not worth repairing imagine how many of them were thrown away....
Oh Krups! look at the price of the capsules!! 😀. Well done Vince. BTW - If you have a look around you can find very thin ferrules to crimp on when soldering isn’t possible. Keep up the great work 👍
99 percent of the thermal fuses i have worked with, are all crimped, and never soldered as solder can melt and drip onto other components or circuit board and short out ...
maybe not in your case but certainly when dealing with bare electrical heating elements .. so do bare this in mind in the future ... nice one vince ...
Thanks a bunch! Fixed a machine that had had the same problem for a cost of less than 1€ :)
I have this machine... when the water tank is empty, if you press the start button, it is starting working with no water, so maybe this seqeunce can burn the thermal fuse. There is nothing to warn you about the lever of water, only the emtpy tank... lol.
Thank you, very useful to put it back.
"Hopefully it will come out brown" - Hehehe... The chuckles are real.
now that's a sentence you don't hear very often ;)
Thank you for the video. You saved my coffee machine.
Thanks mate, this is a very helpful video. I’m about to pull ours apart.
Muchas gracias amigo. La arreglé!!!! Un abrazo desde Chile
I’m glad you did this so I don’t have to! Still not sure why mine isn’t working but I’m not as mechanically clever as you are!
Yeah, that white thing you blew in is a flow sensor… and when crimping/clamping the metals fuse together which is why you had issues removing the fuse.
This is a thermal fuse attached to the pump so the pump does not overheat!!! Its pretty much useless as the coffe maker controller wont run it for much time! Though for security reasona they always put them on these kind of pumps! I had to repair a clients car hoover with one of those. These thermal fuses are really easy to get hold on for pennies! Cheerio! ^_^
Great video Vince, have a look at the delonghi dedica, lots of faulty ones on eBay, no thermal Fuses that I can see, much easier to take apart. My pump is working but no clue why it's not working
Don't like coffee. Don't like to waste money. So your near heart attack due to prices and finishing the drink even though it was cold was exactly what I would have done!! Love it.
Восхищаюсь такими людьми. Ни фига не знают, а лезут. Элементарного разъема с пружинкой на шланге не рассоединить (подобных полно в авто, например), назвать термопредохранитель "пусковым конденсатором" в начале? Хорошо, потом хоть разобрался. Ради интереса полез зачем-то в механику и мог сломать. Если воды внутри не было, то он и сгорел, элементарно. Вот проверочный ход с предохранителем хорош. При пайке надо было плотно держать ножку плоскогубцами для отвода тепла - это одно из правил пайки навесных элементов, я узнал это в 14 лет. Спасибо, что показал разборку. Для тебя это сложно? На столе, с освещением в тепле - это сложно?
If you buy the Nespreso pods there full 100% recyclable here in Australia fun fact for you Vince I bought that exact mechean and love it
Another absolute banger! Great video vince!
Thank you, I was able to fix my machine!
These pumps are fairily ingenious. They work like a classic "ding-dong" door bell. A electro-magnetic coil gets active because of electricity applied to it. It then pushes the metal cylinder away. The spring pushes it back. So you have a forth and back swing which allows to pump the water.
Wow I was wondering how that thing worked, very Kool
Good find with the thermal fuse Vince! Also, welcome to the fidgety hand club 😂. The vibratory pump (solenoid valve) are common in a lot of consumer goods such as irons, coffee makers, steamers, and carpet cleaners. I did a video last year (November) on a Hoover carpet cleaner. If interested I tried to explain (to the best of my ability) how those pumps work. Yours is a wee bit different, but should be similar in function.
🤣 My knuckles have only just recovered! I will check out your video later on. Thank you, looking forward to it 👍👍
@@Mymatevince no worries.
I wonder if there was a tiny something and/or air that prevented the plunger from closing and the coil started to overheat as the inrush can stay high without the correct travel . I’ve looked a fair few pumps in fog and haze machines and sometimes just stripping the pump and putting it back together clears it. It could have been the tiniest bit of scale or grit, you wouldn’t perhaps notice. Funny you should mention a syringe. Recharging the lines by sucking the glycol fluid through is not pleasant and I got a syringe for this very job.
@@epsilonzero77 it's possible and the heat generated in that section, without water assisting to displace it, could have been what cause the thermal fuse to open. You are right, a lot of times a small amount of scale is the problem. However I have come across a few where the resistance of the coil windings was the culprit and a strong enough magnetic field could not be generated to actuate the plunger.
Great job vince👍
Why would they make the thermal fuse cut off the pump with the cooling water, instead of the actual heater that just keeps getting hotter and hotter.
I've never seen a Coffeemachine not having safety in the heating element.
Thank you this one is awsome!!!!
Cheers Anders 👍
Proper fix as always.
Made the same mistake when i was putting some diy clock kit together that had temp sensor... I was like "why it's only twisted there" so i soldered it (and i wasn't even fast about it).
Nice to see simmilar mistakes :-)
Great video love this kind of thing, mine isn’t broke but if it does break I know how to disassemble it. Thanks
Great job!!
I have LOR capsules and I love it. I pay abou R$1,35 per capsule. Which is around £0.18 for a decent espresso. If I go to a coffee shop I pay three times as much for a crappy one.
u can actually buy a heat shunt to help dissipate the heat on amazon but expensive prices for what they are , the best types are made of aluminium .. its a kind of aluminium crocodile clip.but depending on how temp sensitive your item your soldering is you can use a bare crocodile clip... nice fix keep up the good work and enjoying your expensive coffee
Great fix mate!
Great job Vince
You didn't have to disassemble that pump, but I am really grateful you did.
This seemed like and interesting project started looking for a broken one and found out they cost almost the same in working condition. Guess they're not that good :D
Hello
I have almost the same machine
And the clip thing you were struggling with there is a second one which was really easy to remove
But i have forgot where it should go when i tried to re assemble the machine. 😅
Thank you, your video helped 👍🏻
Thanks for the vid Vince. I would have probably done the same thing, not use to many thermal fuses. Great work as always. Oh and never, I repeat never change the intro music, lol
Great video and learned something new here. Thanks!
Don't throw old pods away, you can refill them and use them over and over using a food grade sealant to bung the lower hole or I saw someone suggested clean wax to seal and a tape to seal the top when you have refilled with your favourite coffee. Plenty of vids out there and ground coffee is cheap as chips. I gave ours away as I discovered Taylors of Harrogate did my favourite coffee "Hot Java Lava" in coffee bags and its a mental strong coffee and very nice with a dash o' cream and some dark demorara sugar :)
Well done !
Now that is a wholesome great video. Love what you are creating vince.
Very nice fix