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Offline Mass. Wine Guy

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Had It w/My Behmor
« on: June 30, 2015, 11:03:25 AM »
Today I cleaned the inside chamber of my Behmor. Dried it and then started to run it for a quarter lb cycle. Shut down halfway through and now nothing goes on at all.

Does anyone know a good deal on a used Hottop?
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2015, 01:44:41 PM »
My guess is the board died. You can get a new one for under $30. Replacement took me an hour but I'm SLOW!  ;)
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2015, 03:28:47 PM »
is there an error code?
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2015, 06:09:40 PM »
There's no any code. No power. I do have the replacement upgrade board. Maybe I'll try that.
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2015, 06:41:43 PM »
Give Behmor a call first. They have good customer support and it "might be" something else?
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2015, 04:22:17 PM »
Mine did the same thing.  Behmor sent me a new side printed circuit board.  Kind of pain to change because some of the connections are hard to unplug, but not that big of a deal.  While you have it opened up, take some canned compressed air and blow everything out.  Behmor CS is really helpful.
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2015, 08:46:21 PM »
They're very helpful. I had trouble a year ago or so and they were great. But
I've had a couple of burnout problems and am weary of facing another. Why does it happen?
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Offline JojoS

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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2015, 12:35:17 AM »
It may have something to do with the roast level that the machine is used for. AFAIK, while the Behmor is capable of very dark roasts like Vienna and French, these are levels that are best avoided. Ask Joe Behm about it.
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2015, 08:41:21 AM »
Of the home roasters now available, which are well-made and can handle dark roasts well? I'm looking for something that can roast a minimum of half a pound.
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2015, 09:19:00 AM »
Just pony up and get a roaster from Mill City 1.5 Kilo would solve all your problems for a life time of roasting.
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2015, 09:55:01 AM »
I'd love to, but $500 or less is my budget.

Is the Gene Cafe good? I've read that the heating elements go bad rather fast.
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2015, 11:19:52 AM »
Quote from: yakster on July 03, 2015, 10:57:42 AM
HGDB or SCTO may be your best options in that price range.  I don't know much about the Gene Cafe.

I'm not familiar with those, but I'll look into them. Thanks
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2015, 05:30:56 PM »
I'm totally hopeless when it comes to building anything, no matter how "easy" it may be.
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2015, 05:52:03 PM »
I agree SCTO is the best option, I have a 2 Kilo gas drum roaster for my customers I get the scraps of what is left over, the SCTO is what I use for my personal roasting 90 % of the time, with a little practice you can put out a nice roast. These can be built for around $100 bucks, their are many people on this site that use this type of roasters, Peter is considered the guru in my opinion. Milo turned me on to this system about 4 or 5 years ago and that started my obsession, between family friends and neighbors. Had to up my game and purchased a 2 kilo drum roaster to keep up with over a 100 lbs a month of roasting.     
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Re: Had It w/My Behmor
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2015, 07:23:00 PM »
I'm not a high volume roaster. I do a it a pound or so a week.
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