The S1 Cafe - Helping Your Espresso Dreams Become Reality

OK. Everything is working great. Here's what I did: 1 - I read the manual [When all else fails, read the instructions] from Chris' Coffee and made sure that the machine was running in the VII mode. 2 - I followed the instructions to program the dose and everything worked great. The pump comes on in ...

Thank you Chas for your very detailed comments. You are putting the brain of a senior citizen to work big time. My machine is a Vivaldi II with a manufacturing date of 2007. I am very impressed with the construction and features of the machine and my plan is to get it into 'better than new' shape fo...

I bought a neglected S1 V2 for a very low price but I had to 'bite the bullet' and buy a new control box since someone ahead of me removed the original box. I got the box, cleaned the machine and hooked everything up and it worked great. Then, the other day when I pushed the double shot button I hea...