Recent content by triker

That distributor warranty in Canada is worthless. When my BZ melted itself, I got zero support and was on my own to repair it. If you buy through a LHBS, they might care enough to make things right, but unfortunately my local shop got out of the homebrew business just before I decided to buy.

For those of you, who like me, have been trying to update your Gen4 controller firmware since forever, and have exhausted all the stand on your head and wave your arms type of suggestions to "improve" your WiFi connection... There actually is something that works - enable Bluetooth. I just did...

It's Alive! And it makes beer... My melted BZ4 came back to life after I reassembled it, and I did a brew day today on it. The only alien body parts needed were new feet for the circuit board enclosure - some ugly blobs created out of JB Weld. I did order and install a new thermal cutout (using...

OK, thanks for that info. I was afraid that it would turn out to be exactly that recommendation. My BZ4 fire was due to following that advice, which I found in a bug report on gitlab. I left my unit on for days near my powerful wifi AP. I also tried using my cell as a hot spot for an entirely...

I was thinking about doing that - just replacing the thermal cutout and then re-assembling everything. I was also looking at ways to turn it into an actual cutout instead of just a signal to the controller. The 3rd heater relay on the circuit board isn't used in this model, so it would be a...

This is a 110V Gen4 35. It was 10 months old when it failed. At purchase I didn't pay attention to the warranty, and didn't realize that there was no manufacturer warranty. The place I bought it from has a parts-only warranty. They suggested that I claim this under my home insurance - something...

So in case anyone is interested - I finally got motivated enough to do a postmortem on my melted Gen4. (As a reminder - it was plugged in with the heater turned off, but after a power failure it turned the heaters on all by itself.) Accessing the thermal cutout took a bit of work, since...

Any chance that you could repeat that top secret information here? It's locked away in a private Facebook group, making it impossible for those of us who don't want a Facebook account to get support.

Unfortunately for me, warranty is apparently at the discretion of the seller, and where I bought from is refusing to replace my melted down Brewzilla. I'm looking around at other AIOs, but keep getting drawn back to the feature set of the Gen4. However, bursting into flames and the inability to...

Is there any technical information available for the Gen4 that would help with troubleshooting? A schematic of the circuit board or even just labels for the screw terminals on it would be useful. I'm trying to find out if my Gen4 35 is salvageable. I had it plugged in, empty with the heater...