Breadman Ultimate Plus TR2500BC apparently dies

I see it's made by Salton. Perhaps you should go to their website for the contact information. I hope it comes back for you. Ask them why it went dead and what is the solution, since it's something that's happened to other people.

nancy

My Breadman made two loaves of bread that turned out well, then I had problems. I did not know it would return from the dead, so I trashed it. :(

Becca

: snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote: : :> Is it possible that it will come back to life? I've read two reviews :> at Amazon that suggest this is possible, although they don't say so :> directly: : :I see it's made by Salton. Perhaps you should go to :their website for the contact information. I hope it comes :back for you. Ask them why it went dead and what is the :solution, since it's something that's happened to other people. : :nancy

It DID come back to life today (the day after it happened), some 19 hours after the machine seemed to have died. I have no idea what transpired. In the future I'll make sure to plug in the machine BEFORE adding ingredients. A reviewer at Amazon said it happened to their machine twice, days after the machine's last use. I'm pretty sure my next bread machine will be another brand, likely a Pansonic (were I to order today, that's what it would be). Meantime, I have a working machine (fingers crossed).

: snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote: : :> Is it possible that it will come back to life? I've read two reviews :> at Amazon that suggest this is possible, although they don't say so :> directly: : :I see it's made by Salton. Perhaps you should go to :their website for the contact information. I hope it comes :back for you. Ask them why it went dead and what is the :solution, since it's something that's happened to other people. : :nancy

PS There are many posts at Amazon (reviews) by owners who had this or similar happen to their machines. Maybe they didn't do as I did and wait and see if the machine would come back to life before throwing it away or seeking warantee replacement. I can understand that -- who would expect an apparently dead machine to come back to life? If I hadn't encountered those two reviews that hinted that this could happen, I would have been apt to just assume the machine had become permanently useless.

Dan

:Nancy Young wrote: :> snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote: :> :>> Is it possible that it will come back to life? I've read two reviews :>> at Amazon that suggest this is possible, although they don't say so :>> directly: :> :> I see it's made by Salton. Perhaps you should go to their website for :> the contact information. I hope it comes :> back for you. Ask them why it went dead and what is the :> solution, since it's something that's happened to other people. :> :> nancy : :My Breadman made two loaves of bread that turned out well, then I had :problems. I did not know it would return from the dead, so I trashed :it. :( : :Becca

Yes, sorry, see the other post I just made in this thread. I was hoping against hope that it would come back to life and by golly it did. Strange behavior.

Dan

:The short answer is "yes", but it's a sometime thing. :It's happened to me a couple of times, and the fix :was described by their customer service people to :me. Mine could fail if I hit Pause and then had a :drop in the A/C voltage (Squirrel hit the transformer) :and then would not continue or reset. Lost the :loaf, but after unplugging and letting it cool down :(Power company was here within the hour to :remove the body and reset the transformer) I :plugged it back in, held reset down for a few :seconds and like Lazarus, it did come back to life. :It may take more than one try. It's sort of a cold :reboot. : :HTH, : :Alex

I tried plugging it in and holding down and Stop/Reset button for up to

Dan

: :On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:48:20 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote: : :>I've seen a couple of reviews by users that suggest that this machine :>can suddenly appear dead but maybe come back to life. Or maybe I :>misunderstood. I have had this about 1.5 years and used it around 100 :>times. 1/2 the time I just make pizza dough and don't bake in it. :>Yesterday I baked a loaf of bread. I did what I usually do after baking :>had terminated, I briefly pressed the Stop/Reset button (it beeped) and :>unplugged the machine. ~2 hours later I filled the pan and put it in the :>machine and plugged it in and there was no beep, nothing on the :>display. The interior light does come on. Every time I plug in the :>machine it's the same. :>

:>Is it possible that it will come back to life? I've read two reviews at :>Amazon that suggest this is possible, although they don't say so :>directly: :>

Interesting behavior. I'm pretty sure your Breadman is programmed to prevent making another loaf until the internal temperature of the machine stabilizes i.e., cools down. Can it be that you've never tried making another batch of bread within a few hours after the last? If you have done this before it might be that the thermostat sensor that controls this might be spotty. I have experienced this myself and I think that this machine should be reprogrammed so that it will give you a prompt that warns you that you cannot bake another loaf until a waiting period. As it is now, it simulates a dead machine quite nicely. :-)

Becca wrote;

This is why I bake my bread the _Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day_ way, very easy and no machine to fiddle with...

:-)

====>>> just about to make some pizza bread...

:On Jan 11, 2:48 am, snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote: :> I've seen a couple of reviews by users that suggest that this machine :> can suddenly appear dead but maybe come back to life. Or maybe I :> misunderstood. I have had this about 1.5 years and used it around 100 :> times. 1/2 the time I just make pizza dough and don't bake in it. :> Yesterday I baked a loaf of bread. I did what I usually do after baking :> had terminated, I briefly pressed the Stop/Reset button (it beeped) and :> unplugged the machine. ~2 hours later I filled the pan and put it in the :> machine and plugged it in and there was no  beep, nothing on the :> display. The interior light does come on. Every time I plug in the :> machine it's the same. :>

:> Is it possible that it will come back to life? I've read two reviews at :> Amazon that suggest this is possible, although they don't say so :> directly: :>

:>

: :Interesting behavior. I'm pretty sure your Breadman is programmed to :prevent making another loaf until the internal temperature of the :machine stabilizes i.e., cools down. Can it be that you've never tried :making another batch of bread within a few hours after the last? If :you have done this before it might be that the thermostat sensor that :controls this might be spotty. I have experienced this myself and I :think that this machine should be reprogrammed so that it will give :you a prompt that warns you that you cannot bake another loaf until a :waiting period. As it is now, it simulates a dead machine quite :nicely. :-)

Simulates a dead machine quite nicely indeed! And I'm certain that many have been trashed therefore, kind of like being buried alive just because you are a deep sleeper. My machine did come back to life the next morning. I have a data table for this machine, and I started it the day before I purchased the machine on ebay. The very first entry (made the day before I made my bid on the machine was this:

plug the machine in to see if the "beep" occurs BEFORE adding ingredients -- 06/22/2007

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I don't recall if I ever opened one of those before but it would not surprise me if defeating this interlock could be as simple as bypassing a thermoswitch - if a faulty switch is the cause. If I ever have this problem again, I will investigate this. :-)