sweetride95
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If your grill is having trouble holding low temps, a minimum auger setting adjustment should help the bottom end temps.
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I talked to customer service today. I already had my grill running, so we couldn't check the fan. But we basically talked about startups and clean burn pots versus ashy ones. A clean pot always starts quicker than an ashy one. Since my grill always starts and runs dead nuts on temp, we're 99% sure the grill is fine.
Today I am finishing some belly bacon, so knowing im running for hours in extreme smoke mode, I vacuumed the pot out before starting. I threw in a handful of pellets before reassembling everything. It started smoking in no time, and was actually running in just a couple minutes. It's since been running +/- 3F for the last 4 hours.
Perhaps my extended startups have been on the third or fourth cook. Lots of ash shrouding the igniter wild definitely slow lighting. I will not likely vacuum after every cook, but will try to be more attentive to it.
]That’s really good to know actually. I’ve never had a pellet grill and I’m learning from scratch. I live in SC and I’ve been having some issues keeping low temps (it climbs on its own) and oddly getting to higher temps (tops out at 510 degrees). It’s weird, but Rec Tec said we could do a larger auger motor, it’s just it might make the low end temp issue worse. Otherwise I love this grill. It’s a beast and I honestly may just spend the additional money when their actual grill makes a return. I’m also glad I went Rec Tec over something else.
I tried that and pushed it down too low. Smoke was starting to come out of the hopper and the temps dropped. Pushed it back from 3/3.5 to 6.5. I recall Rec Tec saying that it should be either 3.5 or 6.5.If your grill is having trouble holding low temps, a minimum auger setting adjustment should help the bottom end temps.
Hey sweetride95, any update?
Not bad. They sent me the auger motor for the BFG and I installed that. I was getting weird temp fluctuations and wasn’t hitting the highs I wanted. This seems to have solved most of it.
I’m thinking about the competition cart as well. I’m loving the grill outside of having to install three different controllers.
I have the seal and I’ve been wondering if it helps with temp stability? I’ve had luck just trying wiping mine down after each cook, but I’m still on the fence.