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Offline John F

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Hot top failure
« on: December 09, 2011, 05:32:20 PM »
I'm watching out my window right now wondering if my HT is going to catch fire. 

I just did a normal roast and then at the end when I hit eject nothing happened. The roast got to a ROARING 2nd crack and I tried everything I could think of but no dice...no eject.

Smoke has been billowing out of the HT for an alarming amount of time and I'm not sure if I'll be able to stop it or if it's gonna flash up in a second.

This sucks....sucks sucks sucks.

Anybody ever have HT failure to eject?

Just wondering if I get out of this with no fire what I'm going to need to do to fix this.
« Last Edit: December 09, 2011, 07:26:34 PM by John F »
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Re: Hot top falure
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2011, 05:46:52 PM »
Bogus! I assume you pulled the plug when it wouldn't eject?
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Re: Hot top falure
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2011, 05:50:49 PM »
Wow, that sucks.   I've never had an issue with the HT... odd the eject button didn't work.

I assume you just unplugged it... I had that happen once with my milowewidget attached... had a J type thermocouple and the software thinking it was a K type..... the thermo-fuse finally blew.  You may have that blown now. 

Shoot hottop USA a note.  I suspect they will make it right.
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Re: Hot top falure
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 05:55:53 PM »
Kind of amusing, I just nuked a roast in my behmore,  all my fault, got distracted and let it go on for about 4 minutes past what I should have.  When I remembered it an hour later, I had an odd error message on the behmore.

given you seen your's go bad, you didn't pull the plug?  My first reaction was always 1. curse  2. cut power 3. get it to  safe location to cook off.

let us know how it played out.

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Re: Hot top falure
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 05:56:34 PM »
Now we know why Hottop decided to put the manual eject button on newer models! It could have been worse at least it start an all out fire.
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Re: Hot top falure
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2011, 06:11:35 PM »
That stinks! What model do you have? I have a digital model that is as smooth as butter. As it seems everything else I have is for sale at the moment, I see no reason why I could not also sell it. If there is any interest email me. Sorry to hear about yours!

The model before the current auto ejected when you pulled the chaff collecting drawer out. I am not sure if that would still work it the eject button failed.
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Re: Hot top falure
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2011, 06:22:04 PM »
I pulled the plug right away.

I tried plugging it back in to force a cooling/eject cycle.

I tried pulling the chaff tray..I tried everyting.....the now cool beans are still in there cuz there was no eject by any method I tried.  :-\

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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2011, 07:18:25 PM »
Sounds like you've got the disassembly ejection blues.
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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2011, 07:28:10 PM »
Quote from: grinderz on December 09, 2011, 07:18:25 PM
Sounds like you've got the disassembly ejection blues.

I just sent an email to HT.

Not sure if I should wait to hear from them or start taking it apart.

I'm so sad right now.
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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2011, 08:07:20 PM »
There is an electric powered magnetic rod that manages the ejection process and I am willing to be your problem has something to do with it. Because of the picture size restrictions I cannot post a larger picture, but I circled the portion of the rod that can be seen in red.
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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2011, 08:50:12 PM »
Looking at the website it looks like maybe the ejection door is just jammed or maybe its a bad solenoid.

I'm taking it apart in the am to see what I can see.
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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2011, 10:21:20 PM »
It is pretty easy, just take pictures :) .
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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2011, 11:29:05 PM »
Two things:

- It might also be the button on the control board. I had the same problem with one of my boards, pushing the button wasn't ejecting anything and 'it felt' like the button had a different feel to it than the other buttons. This no-eject scenario happened to me a handful of times and I think it's because the eject button saw a lot of use it eventually just wore the board contact mechanism out. I got a new replacement board from Hottop and all was good again.

- If that no-eject ever happens again, grab a glove and quickly unscrew the gold knob holding the glass window front piece in place and manually shake all the beans out into a colander or whatever you have available. I managed to save a couple of roasts that way.
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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2011, 02:57:36 AM »
That not only sucks its kind of dangerous.  not having a way to eject the beans and having them 'stuck' in there to cook off is just asking for a fire.   Maybe hot top needs a bit of a redesign.
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Re: Hot top failure
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2011, 06:04:58 AM »
Quote from: Ascholten on December 10, 2011, 02:57:36 AM
That not only sucks its kind of dangerous.  not having a way to eject the beans and having them 'stuck' in there to cook off is just asking for a fire.   Maybe hot top needs a bit of a redesign.

Actually, in the roaster is exactly where you wanted to keep them at that point. Lack of oxygen might've been the only thing keeping the beans from bursting into flames. Read what Tom says about it: https://www.sweetmarias.com/library/content/using-sight-determine-degree-roast
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