amazen tube smoker doesnt seem to put out in lower temps

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mhchops

Smoke Blower
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Jan 29, 2013
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western kentucky
Hello all, and i want to thank everyone for all your past, present and future help. I have a small problem I'd love to fix and am lookout ng for any advice as i reall dont know where to begin but have an idea.
I have a Smiled ke Hollow #6 and i love it, does a great job after a few mods to the chip pan but i bought an amazen tube and i'm sure i'm going to love it after i get a few bugs worked out with my smoker. I want to explore the different kinds of flavors that are offered with pellets and are hard to get with chunks i'm going doing ok with the chunks but anything other than hickory is hard or impossible to get here.
So on to my question as i said i have the Smoke Hollow #6 double door gas smoker when i done the burn in pn the tube it seemed to smoke well but that was at 300* and i'm trying it for the first time with some ribs and ham hocks as we speak and it doesn't seem to want to burn at the lower temps, my smoker doesn't have any vents down low except around the burner pod which is under the smoker, so might i have to ad a vent for the tube because maybe the burner is using all the oxygen from the vents around it? Any help is appreciated and again thanks in advance.
Mhchops
 
If it will smoke @ 300*, but not for low & slow, I don't think it's a low-oxygen problem, such as the burner starving the pellet smoker...well, wait a minute, if it's a low-oxygen environment, the pellets may be relying on additional heat from the burner to keep going, instead of burning on their own.

Did the pellets burn-up completely into ash at higher temp, but are only charred and blackened-up at lower temps?

If, so, then yeah, it's too low of oxygen for the tube to burn pellets on it's own, and you will need to make some mods to get it work correctly.

Eric
 
Yes the pellets did burn totally to ash on the trial run and smoked good as far as if they just charred at lower temp i haven't looked at them yet but they just seemed to go out if i opened the lower door they seemed to pick up a little and try to smoke i could blow on them and they would perk right up so im sure it starving for oxygen.
So i wonder if i need to try a vent in the lower side of my smoker or just add a SFB to burn my tube in.
 
Have you tried moving the tube around to different places in the smoker? It might just be finding the place it like best.
 
I have not tried that but there isn't too many places that i see to put it, i have it hanging beside the water pan which is empty,cause i like a dry CC other than bringing it down closer to the burner or up into the cooking area the only other place is directly opposite its location now.
Is it just my thinking but if i put it on the lowest cooking rack i wont get much smoke to food on that rack, is this correct or am i not thinking correctly.
 
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