my amnps came in the mail so of course i decides to give it a test run (no food involved) . The mes 30 doesnt have much room but there is a small gap to the left of the heating element where the amnps fits (very snug i might add) but only if you pull the small ash / chip insert that is below the feeder tube. Now ive read that the heating element speeds up your burn time on the amnps -which i can now verify is true as i looked outside and my exhaust vent was BILLOWING. Silly me i should have let it go but i opened the door to kind of assess the speed of the tray and then...fire....the amnps of course lit up like the fourth of july. i didnt have anything handy to just put it out -of course but i immediately pulled the plug as the last thing i wanted was an electrical fire on my hands- then i closed it all up and slid the tube in to suffocate the fire...which worked ...now i got a funny burn smell in my smoker.
Is anyone out there doing an amnps in the 30? Ive seen a couple posts about heat shields but they dont elaborate on effectiveness. Mailbox mod is something i will be pursuing in the future but im just wondering about something more short term.
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at first i didnt see good tbs from the exhaust so i pulled the feeder tube.
The picture i took was 4 hours of the amnps burning- surface burned alot farther along then i felt like it should have (only one end lit)
I did have the smoker running because i wanted to evaluate the effect of the heating element on the amnps burn rate.
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Is anyone out there doing an amnps in the 30? Ive seen a couple posts about heat shields but they dont elaborate on effectiveness. Mailbox mod is something i will be pursuing in the future but im just wondering about something more short term.
Some other details- - -
at first i didnt see good tbs from the exhaust so i pulled the feeder tube.
The picture i took was 4 hours of the amnps burning- surface burned alot farther along then i felt like it should have (only one end lit)
I did have the smoker running because i wanted to evaluate the effect of the heating element on the amnps burn rate.
[ATTACHMENT=2636][ATTACHMENT=2637]20160221_005305.jpg (5,208k. jpg file)[/ATTACHMENT][/ATTACHMENT]
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