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So, I'm going to work on this project and invite anyone else interested to join in. I'm a geek with programming experience in C/C++, AWK, GAWK, Vbasic, Fortran and Pearl. I'm taking the Gaggiuino base and will be expanding it to add support the the Platinum functions: grinder, wand steam/hot water, prebrew, auto tamping to brew and shot size. It's a tall order but these machines are primo and kind of forgotten. Parts are sketchy to find and there's some powerful base functionality that's just looking for a new controller - voilá the Platinumuino is born. Wish me luck! |
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First I wanted say what a great fun way to repurpose some classic espresso equipment!
Many thanks to the fun filled tinkerers and developers.
I have been repairing two Gaggia Platinum Vision machines for a while now with some marginal success. The challenge is that the old power boards and CPU boards are in very short supply and frankly kind of flaky (mostly the power board).
I'd be very interested in helping to port this Arduino project to the Platinum Vision if anyone else is interested. I currently have two machines (one repaired but marginally working and the other mostly repaired but has a bad valve that I need to pull and replace).
They have quite a lot of sensors already in the stock machines. So, it seems it might be fairly easy to rework them. The biggest problem is the boiler heat cycle - it relies on some components that seem to fail easily with voltage variations (suspect). I'll include a photo of the power board for grins. And a photo of the CPU board.
Anyway, if there's interest, I'm game.
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