Flameboss smoking

[cluckinchicken6]

I use the flameboss 200 wifi and I use this thing just about every time I smoke and I think this thing is awesome I have an xl bge the best thing about this is I can smoke while I'm sleeping or at work due to working 14-15 hrs a day I can't monitor my pit all the time. However I've noticed during my long smokes I get wild temperature fluctuations on the pit side so I started using 2 pit probes to take a average temperature for when I'm away and I've been noticing some strange things happening in my smoker.

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• cluckinchicken6
• Feb 5, 2017

Does anyone else ever come across this problem or is it just my probe placement that is messing up temperature readings? I light center of the lump coal and let it burn outwards as I smoke so I don't know if a probe is just catching a hot coal or if my grill is really fluctuating that many degrees

 

[rdwhahb]

Not sure if I can help but I used the flame boss 200 on both my 18.5" and 22.5" smokers. I experienced wide temperature swings in both smokers especially in long cooks. I used BBQ Guru party Q and then moved up to the Dx2. Both kept my smokers very steady. I returned my flame boss back to Amazon and was all to happy to do it at that. I went back to my BBQ Guru and back to stable temperatures.

Sorry if this is not helpful but is my experience with flame boss.