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Yeah, I hear you. The real reason I'm replacing the controller is to get remote control and monitoring of my smoker's progress (without shelling out all the extra for having it built in). Improving the temperature consistency is more of a "bonus" feature that came along more or less for free (as...

I saw your thread! I actually found a plain aluminum box that's roughly the same size as that mailbox and not too horribly pricey, so mine is probably going to end up looking similar to yours. I'll probably try for a slightly longer duct, though.

Yeah, I've read through a number of the threads on the subject. Under normal conditions I'm sure it'd be fine, but I'm less sure about how a pellet flare-up would affect things. I've decided to play it safe.

I'm taking a brief break from this project until I get a mailbox mod sourced and installed. I did some thinking and figured that the long cycle times on the stock controller may be required to generate good smoke from the chips. Doing shorter cycles may therefore have an adverse effect on smoke...

Ok, so this weekend I rigged up an ADC (an ADS1115) to the Raspberry Pi to measure the temperature probe voltage against the element activation signal while I smoked a pork shoulder. Here's the result: I preheated at 250. Shortly after the temp peaked I put the meat in and lowered the set...

Thanks guys. Good links! I'm going to go through them more thoroughly later to see what else I can learn. For this one I'm keeping it relatively simple. Like Tiros's mod, I'm only replacing the top controller, not anything in the main body. I went ahead and did some probing while smoking some...

I'm in the planning phases of replacing my MES 30" 20071117 smoker's controller with a Raspberry Pi so that I can set up remote monitoring, alarms, and more complex control. It seems relatively simple... the controller is connected to the body via just four wires. When I opened up the...