r/gaggimate

I’m perplexed because running a standard Gaggia Classic at 12 bars I was grinding at around 30-35 clicks on my Kingrinder K6. Now at presumably lower pressures I’m needing to go all the way down to 22-25 clicks. My pucks are almost always muddy. I’ve gotten a couple of great tasting cups which I know is the point but I’m confused as to what’s going on in the machine.
I flushed my transducer tube and added the standard pid values and temp offset. I’m curious if my pressure values could still be off. Is the only true diagnosis to get a pressure gauge portafilter?

Hi, modsmthng here:
I’m the guy who made the Shot Analyzer and the smthng cases.

Together with the Discord community, I built the Automatic Pro v3 profile family. Also LordApoth contributed a lot to v3 in particular, so he’s basically the co-author of v3. We collected a bunch of shots from different machines and used the Shot Analyzer statistics to develop version 3 (and the shot analyzer was developed to easier get these statistics)

The core idea is to automatically detect puck saturation without relying on a scale, regardless of dose, basket, beans or headspace. There’s also an automatic blooming phase, based on how much more water the puck can absorb without more dripping, as well as a ramp-up phase designed to minimize overshooting.

The actual extraction then depends entirely on what you’re looking for: classic 9-bar, spring-lever, or manual-lever-style extractions. There is even an experimental adaptive pressure profile. (I prefer the direct lever variant, which is a flow profile and is inspired by how I use a Flair Pro 2)

To make the profile easier to share, and generally to make things like completing shot notes quick and effortless, I also built a platform where you can download the profile (and upload your profiles). If you’re interested in the platform, you can find all the details here, and quite a lot of it can be tried without even logging in. Since I initially built the platform for myself, it’s free to use, hosted in Europe (and already being used by a few people from the Discord community). Note: the platform is basically the successor of my og Analyzer website.

Btw., Beanconqueror imports are supported as well, in case you use the app and you can export your data from the platform again at any time.

I have a GCP. I did the styrofoam cup test and my group head is releasing water that’s 140F. Of course I can get it up to steaming hot with crazy temp surfing technique but it’s too hard to time it so the water is around 190F with how far off it is. I’m considering replacing the thermostat, but I wonder if I’m better off just going for gaggimate? Does this also replace the thermostat?

Thank you

Heya so I was just wondering as I'm working on the 240v Version of the Classic Pro whether I could just use some Wago clips instead of insulating my wires using tape / bridging them using jumpers?