Comments on: Repairing Mr. Coffee

By: Henry Priebe

Henry Priebe — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:31:25 +0000

Ed w: I just today got the notification of your post after Mary Ann’s and Keith’s!

The capacitor hack would have been great at the time, but my wife and I quit drinking coffee seven years ago due to her health issues. thanks anyway, it might come in handy for something else down the road.

By: Keith Neufeld

Keith Neufeld — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:24:51 +0000

Mary Ann, this happened 11 years ago and I no longer have the coffeemaker; but I can tell from looking at the picture that I crimped a male spade plug onto each end of a short piece of wire, connected it between the female spades on the two leads, and insulated the whole thing. It could be insulated in electrical tape instead of heatshrink, if you know what you’re doing.

By: Mary Ann Kirby

Mary Ann Kirby — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:17:28 +0000

Male to Male Spade plug hack ! Can you send more detail Photo with Hack ? I have same type Mr. coffee with Delay Brew ! Everything went dead after an electrical storm but outlet plug was not effected just The Coffee Maker – I do not care about this either ! I need to know how you removed the Spade plug on the Power cord and exactly what you wired it to directly ! Can you use something other than heatshrink to hold the Spades together ? Need close up wiring if what exactly you did hack to Positive Cord ? Thanks ,

By: Ed w

Ed w — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 04:32:25 +0000

Easy peezy! I connected a yellow wire to the spot where I removed a blown thermister and reconnected that circuit. I connected a black wire to the black wire on the themocouple, removing the thermocouple and replacing with a switch. I ran those out the input hole and hooked a female socket; I cut a rectangular hole for the switch in the lower housing. Now I push make coffee and hear 3 beeps indicating that the keep warm circuit is on; 2 hours later the outlet timer goes off, and the batteries are full at 40 volts! The switch seems to be needed to be on before the make function is available, so I switch it on momentarily.
And in answer to Priebe: there is a big brown object on my circuit board that is likely a capacitor for the RC time constant; soldering another capacitor onto the back of the circuit board attaching to that one will double the time constant of that circuit.

By: Ernie M Slaydon

Ernie M Slaydon — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:53:25 +0000

mr coffee bvmc-sjx33gt electrical wiring diagrams is what I am looking for. On the inlet side of heater assemble is a round disc with a blue and brown wire going to it. A good amount of white power has come out of disc. Can I replace it?.

By: Henry Priebe

Henry Priebe — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:31:20 +0000

What I’d really like to find is a hack that would extend or eliminate the 2 hour warmer timer on newer Mr Coffees. I have developed a reflex to hit the power button twice when I pour a cup of coffee so the shutdown timer resets. A pot of coffee frequently lasts me 4 hours and sometimes up to 6. Unfortunately that power reflex also sometimes kicks in for the last cup of the day, resulting in a somewhat scorched carafe.

Oh and Garrison, that part sounds like the filter basket shut off actuator lever that snaps into holes in the bottom of the basket with only two of the pegs so that it pivots. When the coffee is brewing and the carafe is on the warmer it pushes the spring up unseating the valve to let coffee flow and when you remove the carafe while it is brewing it halts the flow of brewing coffee until you replace the carafe on the warmer.

By: BIll Winans

BIll Winans — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:14:44 +0000

I have a JWX27 Mr. Coffee, two now, that the various small indicator lights go wacky, then a few brews later it stops brewing. Both after about a year. Funny we have old ones small and ugly that work after 20 years! would like to get these working. Has a removable PC board, and leads are detachable. I do not have the electronics experience or tools to check it. would like to get a replacement part and try a bit of process of elimination. Not soure I can safely just by pass the board all together. Any ideas? Bill

By: Keith Neufeld

Keith Neufeld — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:04:04 +0000

Garrison, I’m not familiar with the parts you’re talking about; but if you post a picture somewhere, I expect someone could look it over and give you a hint.

By: Garrison

Garrison — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:44:04 +0000

A part came off from behind the coffee pot near where a tab with a spring is. There is also a flipper hanging down. The part i Have in my hand is sort of concave with 4 pins or pegs. I can’t figure out how it gets inserted given its proximity to the spring and the flipper. Thanks for your help.

By: Keith Neufeld

Keith Neufeld — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:02:24 +0000

Sean, thanks for the transformer information — I definitely didn’t know that! Any ideas on sizing replacement wire? Or just do without, maybe adding a separate fuse?