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Has anyone else encountered this issue?
Remember on an early post I had a code on my remote…it happened while cooking my first Fatty!
See Pics below – the first is the code and SET TEMP that it thought it was set to.
Did not do a thing other than press MEAT PROBE button to check top rack...
Good point on the 3" elbow on side winds. Cooking a fatty now and up here it is windy today about 15 mi/hr.
I do want to see if MB has a mod, otherwise I will try what fuzzyfishin did.
Intersting point though, last night i tested temps with no food load in the smoker.
Today with Fatty in...
I can retry the test to see if the temp goes above the 310 mark on top racks and will have to keep a close watch.
If I get to it today I'll post a quick note. Otherwise I'll wait to replace controller and test all at once.
The only thing I can add to this info is that I realized yesterday while testing, the temps the top half section of the smoker (2nd GEN 40” MES) ran about 20+ degrees hotter than bottom half, when the element was on.
I’m now leaning towards a convection / air flow issue correction.
Ordered...
One NOTE for above comment - initially I had set smoker controller for 250 and the top racks reached 300+ while reading on controller was still at 232 (element still going), so for all 2nd GEN 40"MES owners be careful, as we've read before the temps can get way above 300 mark in top racks. I...
Thanks - Kat & S2K9K . Just getting settled in and working on getting a handle on 2nd Gen 40MES, temp issues etc.but the upside is learning quite a bit on the way and eating the tests. -
Tino
SmokeOne, two things in common today - I also ordered another Mav-ET-732 from Todd today,was going to buy only additional probe but figured there are four racks for all different things, why not. AND...My wife was asking me when I was going to stop spending $ on the smoker project. Did not...
OK so I was a little disappointed mid-day not having a replacement controller, so I went to the store and bought the three inch elbow and embellished the smoke outlet (air damper) to move smoke away from box. I tested the scenario with drip pan out, did not work out too well, temps varied all...
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