What can I upgrade on my L1 from 2013?

Alejandro Erickson

Fresh out of grad school and on my way from Canada to a tiny town in Northern England I caught the Londinium buzz and bought a machine to furnish my humble rented dwelling (in West Cornforth, at the time). I've since returned to Canada and my L1 has been happily wired into the back of my stove for 2 years. In the last week or so, however, my pump has been making sad noises, and I think I had better have a replacement on hand. This seems easy enough on its own, but it appears that the L1 has evolved quite a bit and my L1 is no longer and L1, but is now an LR (right?), and there might be a couple of upgrade kits I can apply.

What upgrades are there for an old L1 (not plumbed, 240V/60Hz, Canada )?

I would love to have, for example, control over pre-infusion pressure, as well as a rotary pump.

Can I have those things?

Alejandro Erickson

After 1 hour of reading the forum I found out that I can't upgrade to the rotary pump (unless I'm wiling to install it externally :D.

https://londiniumespresso.com/forum/londinium-i-owners-forum/894-londinium-r-upgrade-path-from-previous-l1#12420

What else though? I guess I can plumb in (cheaper than a rotary pump that dies immediately when it runs dry)...

Reiss Gunson

hello alejandro

there is no upgrade path from the L1(2012-16) to the LR

primarily this is due to the water tank tank no longer being in the centre of the machine, but moved off to one side to make room for the rotary pump

kind regards

reiss.

Alejandro Erickson

Can a pre-infusion upgrade be done by plumbing in?

Matthew Hoffman

Someone on this forum did that and posted the details. You can probably find his post(s) with the search function.

Alejandro Erickson

Matthew Hoffman post=15478 wrote: Someone on this forum did that and posted the details. You can probably find his post(s) with the search function.

Thanks, I spent some time in the search tool and couldn't find it. If anyone has a link that would be great. I actually have the plumb kit already, but I didn't install it because I wasn't sure what else I needed.... now I've got this extra dimension about preinfusion pressure

Matthew Hoffman

This is the one I was thinking of:
https://londiniumespresso.com/forum/londinium-owners-modifications-and-ideas/971-cold-feed-conversion-l1-series-1

Reiss Gunson

hi alejandro

i can supply the parts to support a plumbed in conversion if you get stuck

kind regards

reiss.

Aaron Bhavsar

I swapped my steam wand for the newer version, seems to work a bit better but I only steam milk if I have guests so not sure if it was really worth it or not in my case!

The pump swap is very straightforward if you need to do it (with Reiss's instructions).