Looking for a PID that will refire on a flameout. I know they all tend to run a decent steqdy temp, and that they all make these less expensive models work properly.
I'm an old make some fire, control it by adding fuel and if she fires up a little hot, no worries.
Now this new tool fires up hot, and runs great on the P setting (I can keep it 205ish all night long) but 225 runs me up to 250-260 down to 200, cycles like this 90 mins to 2 hours then flames out. If I'm awake and the low temp alarm goes off I usually just make sure pellets aren't overflowing the fire pit, remove my brisket, and turn the power off and on to refire but sometimes it takes a few minutes to wake me up and by then I've got to break it all down and clean out the pot because it's just got too many pellets.
All I care about is one that lets me run, change temp (go higher) run, change temp (go lower) and not flame out. Stock controller for me runs fine until I change temps. If I set it on 250 which I like to do after the smoke setting runs a few hours, because I want to get the meat into the safe zone temp wise, then back it down to 225 I get a flame out almost every time. I also get flame outs on 225 every 3-4 hours, sometimes sooner. It's hot, it's humid, but this thing should run 225. So irritating. I don't care that 225 actually means 220-250, because that's how my old smoker ran and I learned to make good meat on it. I mind that it burns out.
Do any of the popular add-ons send power to the ignitor if it runs below say 180ish? I think that would solve my headache and get it back burning before a pile accumulates that will go up like Vesuvius.
PB 820 Lowe's model.
I'm an old make some fire, control it by adding fuel and if she fires up a little hot, no worries.
Now this new tool fires up hot, and runs great on the P setting (I can keep it 205ish all night long) but 225 runs me up to 250-260 down to 200, cycles like this 90 mins to 2 hours then flames out. If I'm awake and the low temp alarm goes off I usually just make sure pellets aren't overflowing the fire pit, remove my brisket, and turn the power off and on to refire but sometimes it takes a few minutes to wake me up and by then I've got to break it all down and clean out the pot because it's just got too many pellets.
All I care about is one that lets me run, change temp (go higher) run, change temp (go lower) and not flame out. Stock controller for me runs fine until I change temps. If I set it on 250 which I like to do after the smoke setting runs a few hours, because I want to get the meat into the safe zone temp wise, then back it down to 225 I get a flame out almost every time. I also get flame outs on 225 every 3-4 hours, sometimes sooner. It's hot, it's humid, but this thing should run 225. So irritating. I don't care that 225 actually means 220-250, because that's how my old smoker ran and I learned to make good meat on it. I mind that it burns out.
Do any of the popular add-ons send power to the ignitor if it runs below say 180ish? I think that would solve my headache and get it back burning before a pile accumulates that will go up like Vesuvius.
PB 820 Lowe's model.
