Emergency situations
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14.0 Emergency situations
14.1 Fire in the drum
1. Press the emergency stop button.
2. Close the manual gas valve.
3. Disconnect the machine from the electrical outlet. (Pull the plug)
4. Do NOT OPEN the front opening. Leave the burning beans inside.
5. You can extinguish the beans by pulling out the sampler and adding water
through the sampler hole.
6. Let the machine cool off.
14.2 Fire on top of the cooling sieve
1. Press the emergency stop button.
2. Close the manual gas valve.
3. Disconnect the machine from the electrical outlet. (Pull the plug)
4. Extinguish the fire using water.
5. Let the machine cool off.
14.3 Fire below / chaff cabinet / dust bin
1. Press the emergency stop button.
2. Close the manual gas valve.
3. Disconnect the machine from the electrical outlet. (Pull the plug)
4. Do NOT OPEN any door! Keeping the doors and other openings shut will ulti-
mately cause the fire to stop by itself.
5. Let the machine cool off.
14.4 Caution when roasting
• Do not roast batches that are too small and avoid too quick heat supply.
• Roasting has to be stopped immediately when the brown color of the coffee
beans is getting darker. Above 220 °C there is the danger of fire due to the heat
reactions within the bean’s interior. The coffee has to cool down quickly on the
cooling sieve.