Bradley display not functioning

[stbrick]

I was recently given a Bradley BTDS76P, and today I decided to try it out for the first time. I connected everything together, and when I turn it on it beeps once but then the digital display doesn't turn on. It heats up but I have no clue what temperature it defaults to. Based on my thermometer I'd guess 250F? I can use the "Wood >>>" button to push a puck in.

So a few questions...
- Is there a way to diagnose why the display isn't turning on? I took the unit apart and nothing stuck out as being obviously wrong.
- Does anyone happen to know the default temperature that the Bradley BTDS76P starts at?
- Does anyone have this unit and could maybe tell me which buttons I'd need to hit in which order to change the temperature? Bonus points for how to have it manage the wood pucks for the time duration too.

 

[SonnyE]

My Bradley became finicky, and after 15 or so +/- years, and Bradley pricing their pucks out of the reasonable range,
I went looking for a better way.
Enter Smoking Meat Forums, and an education in different ways. ;)
I settled on an MES 30, and an AMNPS. And using pellet fuels for smoke which are easily everywhere around me.

Me being me, I highly modified my MES, and I can do anything from cold smoking up to 275° now.
The AMNPS will run for 11 hours on a full load of pellets, And my MES is strictly a smoker oven.
After 50 years of dabbling in smoking meat, SMF and my modified MES has me in Euphoria.
Not to mention the Fine Friends I've found here.
So, I'd recommend you drop the finicky Bratley, Change direction, get the MES you like, get an AMNPS, and never look back. Except to remember where you came from....

I do small batch smoking, so the MES 30 was best for me.
YMMV. ;)

 

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