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Vario / Forte motor

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:14:33 +0000

Baratza Vario / Forte Motor drive parts and ratio

Motor

Baratza have at least 3 variants of motor used in the Vario… and 120V/230V versions of each:

* PN: 1036 / 1037 D-shaft motor * PN: 1058? / ?? Helical shaft motor * PN: 6026 / 6027 Hybrid shaft motor

There’s also two styles of motor enclosure used:

not sure if these relate to specific part numbers above or not though, or it might be a Mahlkonig vs Baratza difference.

Sunbeam Torino EM8000: Installing an OPV

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:24:56 +0000

I’m quite a fan of my Sunbeam Torino

It looks great and has a lot of solid features like dosed shot buttons, pour timer, pressure gauge, PID adjustable temperature control, quick warmup, strong steam and a full size (58mm) group head.

When the Torino first launched, it did not review well, on CS the response was generally quite brutal… Sunbeam trying to sell it for AUD$2000 put it up against a lot of big names in the industry and people in the know didn’t seem to think it matched up at all.

Bluetooth SIG PTS Testing without the Laird Connectivity PTS Dongle

Tue, 11 May 2021 05:26:16 +0000

At work we needed to certify a BLE device recently. We had the legacy PTS dongle provided by Bluetooth SIG, however I found it only supports testing devices up the BLE 4.2

So we need a new BLE Dongle - they now only support the Laird Connectivity | 451-00004

https://store.bluetooth.com/

This is normally stocked by all the online electronics distributers; element14, digikey, mouser, arrow etc. Unfortunately it was out of stock on all of them, for about 4 months.

Sunbeam Torino EM8000: Reducing the pressure with a dimmer

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 09:46:00 +0000

I’m a big fan of my Sunbeam Torino

I’ve had my Torino for about a year now. I read the reviews talking it down before I bought it but didn’t have the bench space for a BDB. I also got it for about AUD 1K, much less than the original RRP. For the price I think it’s the best looking machine that has all the conveniences like dosed shot buttons, pour timer, quick startup etc.