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I am doing a season/learning curve burn right now, and my temp is hovering nicely between 225 and 232, even in the pretty good breeze we have. I am running the 12 inch Tube for some smoke.
How long should I let it go???
I shut the heat off at about 2 hours. Both vents closed, top vent wide open. Burner set on low, and closed off the needle valve some.
Tube was about half at that point, and putting out a nice, thin blue/slightly white smoke that smelled good.
I feel comfortable enough to run a 3-2-1 rib dinner now. :)
So right after I posted about some questions I had in regard to using the 3/8" gasket, I see that you did the same thing a couple months ago. After gluing in the gasket did you have any issues with getting the door closed and latched? I was playing with the gasket by lining it around without glue and I could not get the door to close at all. Makes me very worried about gluing it in place without knowning for sure my door will close!
Also, I like what you did for adding a spot for the 12" tube. I have one as well and it will be on its maiden voyage tomorrow. Question though - is there any issue with having it directly below the side vent or do you usually keep it closed most/all the way?
My 12" AMPS worked great when I did a smoke yesterday. Set it on bottom left side and vent closed. Worked great and I am not sure why I waited so long to buy one. 4 hours of continuous smoke.