Hold your cards, I believe we have a winner. Yep, Marc just won the Internet today!
MES Digitals - Rated #1 choice by Masochists.
Same old S**T , different day.
Future prospective buyers - "Search", reading, and study of existing past posts here, SMF, your friend.
RA RA SIS BOOM BAH,........ GOOOOO China !!!!! Marc
I don't think you can replace the Solid State Relay (SSR) that comes with the MES but I could be wrong.TallBM
They sent me two brand new element kits which had new connecting wires which I installed. Could you walk me through the controller solid state? Where to get one and how to replace it. Thanks
Shoot !!
Or an Analog Masterbuilt, even though it can't sing and dance, and does not look like a Nike shoe or a "Transformer" with all the plastic crap.
Marc
No, still China.
Shoot !!
I should have bought the Analog, but I didn't know they were made in the USA.
Bear
That's Great Rs !!
Thanks for the forum on this smoker. I have used my Masterbuilt for about 5 years, then it stopped heating last week. Found this forum and read the posts. I was lucky, my smoker has an access panel on the back of the unit to access the heating element. I took the cover off and found what people described. The wires to the element were fried. One had completely disintegrated and fell apart and the other was cooked but still intact. Took the heating element out, used a wire wheel on my drill to clean and shine up the spades for the wires. Cut the wire back a little and removed the cloth wire insulating. Made sure the wire strands were twisted tight and slide it the hole in the middle of the spades with some flux on it. Twisted them around the spade and soldered them in place. I also found that the green ground wire in the unit was loose and had issues with the digital display numbers acting up. Tighten that up too. Put it all back together and fired up the smoker. The digital display is working properly now and the smoker heats faster. Worked flawlessly last night when I smoked babybacks. Thanks guys..........
I can't help with something like that.
Howdy. My MES30 quit at the end of a 12 hour smoke last fall. (the silver front window model with flat recessed LCD control panel on front top edge). It was running along just fine and the next time I went up to it, it was off and would not turn back on. LCD display was off, no power. Checked my house electrical outlet and it worked fine. Is there a fuse in the back of the smoker? I opened up the back panel and all I can see is the main control board. To me it looks like it isn't getting power at all since the display doesn't turn on at all. I also tried plugging in a spare LCD control panel that I got because the original had a bubble in the protective coating. The backup LCD control panel didn't work either, so I'm assuming there is a fuse somewhere that is buried within the unit, or the main control board is shot. Any suggestions? Thanks!!
It seems your right about being a power issue and having to chase down where the circuit is open whether there is a fuse or fried/disconnected wire/component. It would be great to find the problem visually with the smoker unplugged but if it is permanently off then I would do TallBM's four wire cuts and splice to bypass in the bottom access panel all Mes components and plug the power cord into a PID controller. So the power cord black wire when plugged in runs electricity through the black braided wire safety snap disk to the heating element and the other element leg black braided wire back to the white neutral.Howdy. My MES30 quit at the end of a 12 hour smoke last fall. (the silver front window model with flat recessed LCD control panel on front top edge). It was running along just fine and the next time I went up to it, it was off and would not turn back on. LCD display was off, no power. Checked my house electrical outlet and it worked fine. Is there a fuse in the back of the smoker? I opened up the back panel and all I can see is the main control board. To me it looks like it isn't getting power at all since the display doesn't turn on at all. I also tried plugging in a spare LCD control panel that I got because the original had a bubble in the protective coating. The backup LCD control panel didn't work either, so I'm assuming there is a fuse somewhere that is buried within the unit, or the main control board is shot. Any suggestions? Thanks!!