Thermocoil Comp Assembly SP0010231

Part works! Arrived in a reasonable amount of time. I'm a happy customer.

This part works fantastically and saved me hundreds of dollars in repairs or simply a full unit replacement, which I'm super grateful for. Connecting the blue and red wires was a little more involved than I expected and took me a while to figure out though. I replaced the thermocoil in my Breville Barista Express, and Breville uses wire clamps that can't be removed without cutting and stripping some wires, so just be aware of that step in the process (I'm completely new to repairing anything, so that might be an assumed step, but it was the bottleneck for me). In as far as this part goes though, it works perfectly, fits perfectly, and was super easy to order/receive/figure out how to install.

I thought this was a bad part because of the temperature of the water I was getting turns out 194 is about as high as I can get out of this machine. I just did the pressure valve to lower the pressure by cutting the spring in the regulator to drop the pressure to nine bar instead of 14 as the machine is designed, that was the best improveme.

Unfortunately it did not come with any documentation at all. Even a simple vector graphic document of how to remove the old one and put the new one in, aka an Ikea type instruction booklet would have been really useful.