DeLonghi Silver Compact ECAM23460S Questions & Answers (page 2 of 2)

Hi I've never really measured. Though would say at least 6 before it needs refilling thought this could change depending on how full the machine is and also the size cups you are using.

The sensor is in the funnel leading the beans to the grinder. Sometimes the beans clogg in front of the funnel and block the funnel entrance. So even you have the container filled, no beans reach the grinder. Empty the beans container and make sure that the funnel is not blocked by beans or may be by any forgotten packing material.

Oh, that's not good at all. Don't know why it's doing that I have not had any of these problems. I take it that it is out of it's consumer warranty? However the repair should have some warranty to it and repair it for free. Test them with that. If all fails I would try the opposition - maybe Saeco?

Absolutely.

Yes, both

you dont put chocolate powder in the compartment but
you can add chocolate powder to the frothed milk
and you can also use the hot water only function as well.

You add chocolate powder to your cup. From there you have a choice of milk or water. If milk, moisten the chocolate powder in your cup, connect the 'jug' with milk to the machine, then press the Cappuccino button twice and you get frothy hot chocolate.
If water, place your cup containing chocolate powder under the tap gadget, press the tap button and hot water flows. You get ordinary hot chocolate to which you can add milk and/or sugar to taste.
You can do this to that powdered coffee, e.g. Nestles or Jarrah, etc.

It does short coffees with a pretty decent crema (for a fully auto, home machine), there is also an 'extra long' coffee setting which runs a lot of water through for what I believe Italians would call a cafe americano. One quirk of the machine is that if you hit the '2 cups' button it just does one grind and runs the water for double the time, which gives you a pretty substantial mug of black coffee.