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    Pit boss

    I had problems with the controller supplied with my smoker, which purchased about 3 years ago. I replaced it with a Savannah Stoker controller, which is a PID controller, and am very satisfied. Also, see...
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    BBQ Restaurant On the Water South Carolina

    My wife and I are camping on Lake Hartwell SC, and I wanted to try and locate a BBQ restaurant that appeared in a national advertisement, I think it was one of those 'blue-pill' ads, like Cialis. It's located on the water, as in the commercial, the couple is out fishing, then take their boat...
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    Walmart has 'Best Value' Kingsford - buyer beware!

    Walmart is showing your 'Best Value' is to purchase a 4 pack for $19.21 per pound, or you can select the one that's not the best value for $16.96 per pound. LOL!
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    Brisket: Pit-Boss 820D, Savannah Stoker controller

    Hi Adam! Thanks for the request regarding the software. I'm on the road right now traveling in our R-POD camper, so it will be a month or more before I'll be back at my home systems where the software is stored. In the meantime, there are some other projects I've built here...
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    Pork Ribs - favorite wood

    Thought I had posted this earlier today, but can't find it....so here it is, and hopefully, not a double post!
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    Temperature Controller Build - any interest?

    I'm thinking about building my own controller. It will consist of the following elements: It would be primarily aimed at pellet smokers since the control of the pellet supply would be possible. However, control of inlet air dampers for items such as Big Green Egg, or other smoker that has a...
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    Pork Ribs - Favorite Temperature for smoking

    I'll be smoking some PORK RIBS (from Costco) this week, and I've never done them on my Pit-Boss 820D before. So I thought I would post this poll:
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    • Thread
    • pellet smoker pork ribs temperature
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Pellet Smokers
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    Brisket: Pit-Boss 820D, Savannah Stoker controller

    You know, I'm not sure that a faster RTD will help. I saw really fast temperature shifts, which I attributed to just hot air currents swirling around, on my thermocouples. A faster response RTD, coupled with a slow energy injection (feed pellets in, they gradually catch fire), and I suspect we...
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    Brisket: Pit-Boss 820D, Savannah Stoker controller

    No, did not have any issues. It's not perfect though. The RTD is in a rather bulky package, much higher mass than the thermocouples I used, so the RTD tends to dampen or smooth-out the temperature swings, while the thermocouple reacts almost immediately, and shows the true swings. But it's...
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    Brisket: Pit-Boss 820D, Savannah Stoker controller

    Bouve124, I did some manual settings as well as autotune. Both appear to work OK, and is what I used to smoke my 14.25 lb brisket that turned out well at 225 dF. These are my manual tuning values (for pit-boss master-pro blend pellets): P 15 I 1,000 D 75 OutL 2 T 15 Oth 25 Pb1 31. I...
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    Pit-Boss 820D Temperature Control Using Factory Controller

    My thermocouple measurement rig.
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    Brisket: Pit-Boss 820D, Savannah Stoker controller

    Chris, thanks for the suggestion - will do on next one.
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    Brisket: Pit-Boss 820D, Savannah Stoker controller

    I've been smoking meat, primarily pork shoulder, since 1989. During that time, I got quite good at pork, but my brisket was never righteous.....until today! On my Pit-Boss 820D, using the Savannah Stoker controller: Pit-Boss pro blend pellets (consumed about 1 *RC per hour) 14.5 # brisket...
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    • 225 aaron franklin brisket franklin's bbq pit-boss 820d savannah stoker
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Pellet Smokers
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    Pit-Boss 820D Temperature Control Using Factory Controller

    Mine doesn't look like that at all. I don't have any way to compare the factory 820D controller with the one you have; they could even look identical but be running different software. This is what mine looks like (picture from google search, as I've pulled mine out of the smoker and replaced...
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    Pit-Boss 820D Temperature Control Using Factory Controller

    Is that the model 820D? It doesn't look like my factory controller at all.
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