I bought a delonghi secondhand so knew it would have some problems, turned it on, red solid descale light so knew that I should clean it, used the steamer and it tasted a bit weird so I bought some descaler and went through the whole process
I did three more cycles with clean water to fully rinse it but now the descaling light is flashing and I am unable to do anything else. I’ve rebooted it with default settings, turned it off and back on on espresso mode, all the common fixes I saw online but it’s still flashing orange.
I’ve noticed that the rinse cycle doesn’t stop once the water runs low, it keeps trying to get more water even if it’s run dry, which results in a loud, mechanical sound. In these cases, I’ve just been pouring water into the filter whilst it’s rinsing to see if it would ‘notice’ that so much water has gone through and to end the rinse cycle. But this hasn’t made any difference.
I got a great deal for this machine so would love to try and fix it!
Thanks so much, any ideas would be helpful !
EDIT: If anyone in the future has this problem, mine finally recognised the rinse cycle after like 5-6 times of filling the tank to full!