I received it yesterday, unboxed it, and of course I had to leave it on my desk so I could give it the side-eye for at LEAST a day. 
Decided today that I'd go ahead and hook it up to Big Chief BEFORE I change out the element basically to get a feel for how it works...I am THOROUGHLY impressed with this thing!!!
I printed out the PID sticky, hooked up the PID, set it (c1/t1 only...zeroed out c2/t2 - c6/t6) starting at 100F and then manually walked it up to 150F (where it is currently) after each temp stabilized and ran for about an hour.
I did not change any of the PID (#166) settings, but the temp never went more than 1F over or 3-5F under the temp settings and then only briefly.
I then added my ThermoPro probe to the cabinet about halfway between top/bottom and above the Auber probe (which is about 5" above the element) and THAT probe is consistently bouncing between 145 - 150F.
Did I mention how impressed I was???
Yes, I think I did!
I'm gonna try for 165F in Big Chief and see what happens as that's the stated max temp of the smoker (not holding out a lot of hope for that...it's not freezing cold, but it is pretty cool on my back porch and it's getting late in the day...we'll see).
So I guess tomorrow is the day I get to see if I can swap these burners out. I have the hot plate broke down and took pics of the wiring before/during/after, soooo...
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to tallbm and chopsaw for their easy-to-follow instructions...the Auber manual is a bit above my level of techno-speak!
Will update when it's done...hopefully, I won't trash BC or the hotplate!
Decided today that I'd go ahead and hook it up to Big Chief BEFORE I change out the element basically to get a feel for how it works...I am THOROUGHLY impressed with this thing!!!
I printed out the PID sticky, hooked up the PID, set it (c1/t1 only...zeroed out c2/t2 - c6/t6) starting at 100F and then manually walked it up to 150F (where it is currently) after each temp stabilized and ran for about an hour.
I did not change any of the PID (#166) settings, but the temp never went more than 1F over or 3-5F under the temp settings and then only briefly.
I then added my ThermoPro probe to the cabinet about halfway between top/bottom and above the Auber probe (which is about 5" above the element) and THAT probe is consistently bouncing between 145 - 150F.
Did I mention how impressed I was???
Yes, I think I did!
I'm gonna try for 165F in Big Chief and see what happens as that's the stated max temp of the smoker (not holding out a lot of hope for that...it's not freezing cold, but it is pretty cool on my back porch and it's getting late in the day...we'll see).
So I guess tomorrow is the day I get to see if I can swap these burners out. I have the hot plate broke down and took pics of the wiring before/during/after, soooo...
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to tallbm and chopsaw for their easy-to-follow instructions...the Auber manual is a bit above my level of techno-speak!
Will update when it's done...hopefully, I won't trash BC or the hotplate!
