I've been having issues getting the Deck Boss 590 to ignite properly.
I start with lid open then hit the power on (temp on "Lo"). After about 5 minutes of nothing happening (no smoke or temp increase) it will finally ignite. It will begin to smoke profusely (lot's of white dirty smoke) with seemingly no end in sight. I will eventually get a small explosion that will extinguish the smoke but then I notice there is a fire starting inside the smoker (flames coming up thru the grate).
At this point I hit the power button to shut it down and then just let the fan run for its 300 seconds. When this is done. I wait a few minutes and then start up the smoker again. It runs normally after all that.
This has happened the last 2 times I've used it and this last time I cleaned out the ash and any little bits of grease that may have been in there before I started. Even put new tin foil on the grease deflector pan.
I was thinking, the next time I use it I will start it up with nothing in the smoker so I can look directly into the firepot and see what's going on. I suspect I'm getting a build up of pellets that aren't igniting and that's what's causing the tons of smoke and explosion I've encountered (when they finally do ignite).
I have only been using the smoker every couple weeks lately so I'm also wondering if the pellets are getting damp (using Bear Mountain "Bold" pellets). This never happened before when the weather was really hot, but now that winter is here (even in SoCal) it is getting chilly at night and quite damp.
I guess I'm just wondering what I can do to stop this from happening. With the recent fires in Socal everyone is very sensitive to seeing smoke outside and with the amount of smoke billowing out of this smoker when this happens, I don't need the fire department showing up at my door.
Thanks.
I start with lid open then hit the power on (temp on "Lo"). After about 5 minutes of nothing happening (no smoke or temp increase) it will finally ignite. It will begin to smoke profusely (lot's of white dirty smoke) with seemingly no end in sight. I will eventually get a small explosion that will extinguish the smoke but then I notice there is a fire starting inside the smoker (flames coming up thru the grate).
At this point I hit the power button to shut it down and then just let the fan run for its 300 seconds. When this is done. I wait a few minutes and then start up the smoker again. It runs normally after all that.
This has happened the last 2 times I've used it and this last time I cleaned out the ash and any little bits of grease that may have been in there before I started. Even put new tin foil on the grease deflector pan.
I was thinking, the next time I use it I will start it up with nothing in the smoker so I can look directly into the firepot and see what's going on. I suspect I'm getting a build up of pellets that aren't igniting and that's what's causing the tons of smoke and explosion I've encountered (when they finally do ignite).
I have only been using the smoker every couple weeks lately so I'm also wondering if the pellets are getting damp (using Bear Mountain "Bold" pellets). This never happened before when the weather was really hot, but now that winter is here (even in SoCal) it is getting chilly at night and quite damp.
I guess I'm just wondering what I can do to stop this from happening. With the recent fires in Socal everyone is very sensitive to seeing smoke outside and with the amount of smoke billowing out of this smoker when this happens, I don't need the fire department showing up at my door.
Thanks.