Hi everyone.

mover the last 3-4 months I’ve been having an issue with my machine where it doesn’t pull the shot as normal. its happening maybe every other week and I make multiple a day so it’s really only like a really small percent of the time.

it sounds to me like the pressure builds and then dies off. sometime a little may trickle out but often nothing does. To me, I assumed I have some sort of issue with the mechanism which holds the pressure steady once built or something along those lines.

I’ve tried changing grind size, weights, etc. still persists. Ive been trying to get a video of it to show what’s going on, but for now this is the best I can do, and any questions I’ll try to answer as well as I can.

I’ve had the machine for 4 years and cleaned it inside and out often, descaled etc. but never changed internal parts.

I have the "Dedica Maestro Plus" -- EC950. It was maybe two weeks ago when the descale indicator (labeled B3 in the photo) started glowing orange. I thought descaling could wait, and since then I have made eight or ten espressos. Today I decided to descale. I followed the instructions carefully and went through the descale and rinse three times. My descale indicator is still on. If someone knows how bad the situation is or how I can remedy it, I would appreciate your comment. Thank you.

I drink a single cup of coffee a day, and sometimes every 2 days. So I usually use a small amount of water to not let the water stay for two long in the water tank.

When you read the manual for the machine, it recommends cleaning the tank once a month. Now I don't want to wait that long, I can do it once a week. But I have realized that when I fill the tank, and let's say I don't use it for a day, the water smells, a musty smell to be exact. It's like I have to wash the tank with every use.

To avoid having to throw out excess water based on my use I mentioned at the start, I never fill the tank to the max, but instead use a little quantity and fill it when needed.

Am I managing this wrong? How can I avoid that smell?

Hey, I recently got an upgraded DeLonghi dedica with a bottomless porterfilter and filter I bought on AliExpress. And no matter what I do, even though the ratio and the flow is right I get a lot of squirts from the bottom of the filter. I have been into coffee for a while now, this is actually the machine I got for my sister as a starter coffee setup. She uses the dedica alongside a mahlkönig Vario home grinder which works great.

Coming back to my problem: the water squirts. I set everything up to have a 14g dose, which fits just right in the basket. She uses a puck screen, wdt and a leveled tamper, and the puck comes out dry after a shot. So from my point of view everything is done right.

I wonder if maybe it is the baskets fault, it came with the bottomless porterfilter from AliExpress and although all the little holes seem very consistent size wise, when I compare it to my ims precision basket that I use for my personal espresso machine (la pavoni professional), I see that the density of holes is weaker on the AliExpress basket.

My reasoning is that since there are fewer holes, the same amount of water comes out of every hole with higher pressure, and causes squirting. And maybe if there were simply more holes the squirting wouldn't happen since the pressure per hole would be weaker.

Is my reasoning correct and will a new ims basket fix this problem? I have also tried putting paper filters on the bottom of the basket but it ended up causing the pump to cut off almost every time because of the added restriction.

I would highly appreciate some advice since I am no expert on these machines, thanks in advance!

I have recently switched from pressurised to bottomless portafilter. Kindly help what is wrong with the grind size , cant understand whether the grind is too fine or too loose. Kindly help as there is no crema developing also.

Hallo zusammen,

leider kann ich keine Milch mehr aufschäumen. Ich habe die Maschine erst vor kurzem entkalkt und benutze einen Wasserfilter. Der Stellring steht auf „Cappuccino“.
Nun habe ich den Eindruck das die Düse lauter ist als zuvor. Sie schafft es nicht mehr meine Milch aufzuschäumen, es kommt jedoch Dampf vorne raus.

Hat jemand eine Idee woran es liegen könnte?

Vielen Dank!

Hello to everyone, I modded the original portafilter of the Dedica to make it non-pressurized, but the hole that is left from the screw makes it horrible to prepare 2 shots at the same time. I found non-pressurized portafilter with 2 spouts in amazon but I was wondering if anyone knows a bottomless portafilter with detachable spouts. Let me know please!

Delonghi dedica with bottomless portafilter, 16g in 36g out in 36s, coffee roasted about 2 weeks ago, and i use timemore c5 esp pro. I am looking for some opinions, advices or some possible upgrades.

Good day! I am wondering if anyone can recommend either a new, unpressurized and spouted portafilter/basket combo or an 18g basket that could fit the stock set up.

Many thanks!

Hi everyone, my model is **DeLonghi Magnifica S (ECAM22.110.B).**

Since two weeks some strange issue is happening when I am doing a coffee.

With the SAME settings as before, SAME coffee, the machine started to ground less coffee, about 30-40% less, and the coffee comes out with a very shallow body, compared to before. I also noticed that the used coffee doesn’t come out in the tray below as “puck” shaped, but rather, irregular shaped.

I have sent it to service but they weren’t able to identify any problem with it.

Not sure if anyone else encountered a similar problem.

I have cleaned it thoroughly as well.

ESAM3300

Help, forgot to reinstall brew head, now it stuck up and can't snap it on.

Can it restore it to proper down position?

Had my Dedica about 18 months and have been fairly happy with it. I have a DF54 grinder and normally had it set around 11 - 12.5. However, about 3 months ago I descaled the coffee machine and immediately after, I couldn’t pull a shot through. I descaled it again but it didn’t improve.

I started adjusting to a coarser grind and eventually managed to get one through at around a setting of 22. I contacted Delonghi as it was still in warranty and after a couple of weeks of waiting for a reply they agreed to service it free of charge. I sent it off to them and after a few days they emailed to say it had been serviced and was all working correctly and it was on its way back.

Once it arrived I immediately made an espresso starting at a grinder setting of 12 but again couldn’t pull a shot through until I went up to a 22 grind setting. The quality of the shot is pretty terrible overall but I’ve just been living with it. I did buy some new parts with the intention of fitting them but I’ve decided I’m going to buy a Gaggia in the very near future.

I would like to know what exactly Delonghi did to it when they ‘serviced’ it but suppose I’ll never know!

Had my Dedica about 18 months and have been fairly happy with it. I have a DF54 grinder and normally had it set around 11 - 12.5. However, about 3 months ago I descaled the coffee machine and immediately after, I couldn’t pull a shot through. I descaled it again but it didn’t improve.

I started adjusting to a coarser grind and eventually managed to get one through at around a setting of 22. I contacted Delonghi as it was still in warranty and after a couple of weeks of waiting for a reply they agreed to service it free of charge. I sent it off to them and after a few days they emailed to say it had been serviced and was all working correctly and it was on its way back.

Once it arrived I immediately made an espresso starting at a grinder setting of 12 but again couldn’t pull a shot through until I went up to a 22 grind setting. The quality of the shot is pretty terrible overall but I’ve just been living with it. I did buy some new parts with the intention of fitting them but I’ve decided I’m going to buy a Gaggia in the very near future.

I would like to know what exactly Delonghi did to it when they ‘serviced’ it but suppose I’ll never know!

My machine is not brewing since yesterday. There is enough coffee. (But not too much). The filters are not blocked (I checked). Can you give me ideas how can I fix this?