Recent content by grady in texas

Ordered form Auber Instruments! Thanks all! Hopefiully when we run out of turkey... frying 4 roasting 1... we can smoke the next item!

Thanks! The input voltage is x-32 vt DC so 12 vt DC should be fine. I'll order another one.

I bought a used Cookshack #105, converted it to a PID/SSR controller and use it all the time. It is really plug and go. Mostly I smoke briskets (overnight), chickens (whole and thighs), Bostons and have experimented with all kinds of things (vegies, whole garlic, etc.). I have had some luck...

A couple of years ago I replaced the dead brains in my ~1995 Cookshack #105 with a TA-4 PID and 25 Amp SSR. It worked just fine until a couple of weeks ago. In the middle of the night and the middle of smoking a pork butt, the electric element failed. (Interestingly, I have no idea how long it...

Popped the SSR apart and it's fried but boy there in nothing in there.  One itsy board.  Quite a contrast to the old school A/C - A/C original relay!

Bummer - Was set to do my autotune and first new smoke... but apparently in putting everything back together and moving it back outside I pinched one of the element lead wires (how did I miss that one?) and as soon as I turned up the temperature the SSR went poof.  Problem with everything being...

As mentioned on the Roll Call forum - I live in Houston and several years ago I bought a well-used Cookshack (Model 105 circa 1995) smoker when the historic downtown Houston Club closed/moved.  Unfortunately the motherboard died and replacements were pricey. So today I swapped out the guts for...

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