I received Trail master Vertical smoker for fathers day. I put it together sealed everything I could find that would leak and sealed all the doors with lavalock and built a metal basket for the charcoal/wood. I also purchased the IQ120 with the standard adapter and received it Friday morning. I cured the smoker yesterday and had a little problem keeping the cooking chambers temp but was able to get the cure done. I should mention this is the first time that I've used an offset smoker.
Today, I started smoking a pork shoulder went on around 9:30 this morning, I put the ribs on around 2:30 this afternoon. After I put the ribs on, about 30 minutes later my problems started. I could only maintain 210 degrees in the cooking chamber. I went and purchased a 1" valve, drilled a hole in the center of the dampener and attached the valve, hooked everything back up and my temp started climbing. I was happy and thought I had cured the problem, twenty minutes later the temp dropped to 190 degrees and I was unable to get it back up to 225 degrees.
can someone help me with this?