Recent content by TxTechSmoker

I don’t have a Bull And I’m far from an expert, but in my experience and dealings with my stampede, I’d argue that what your experience is not “normal.” It shouldn’t take 30 minutes to reach 350*, and you definitely shouldn’t have that wide of temperature ranges or flares.

I completely agree that a brand new grill/smoker should not require upgrades, or for that matter replacement parts to work as advertised. However, the issues experience by myself and a few others do not seem to be the norm in anyway, shape, or form. If they were it’d be hard to imagine Rec Tec...

I don’t remember what temp it was outside. If I had to guess it was probably 50 something... but I’d call Rec Tec if I was you. I would assume, based on my experience, that taking 35 min to get to 375 is not normal.

UPDATE: I got the new motor and controller installed a few days ago. Both were fairly simple to replace btw.. my grill now reaches 550* in about 20 minutes and it has maintained around 500* when opening the lid a few times flipping steaks. despite the larger motor, it also held around 180*...

Now that’d be impressive!

Rec Tec agreed the temp probe wasn’t an issue. They are now sending out a new and bigger auger motor and a new controller. The rep said this would fix my temp issues without question, and that I should be able to get temps up to 550* no problem. as a show of good faith for my difficulties with...

Received the new temp probe. Did another 1 hour burn on “full” after I installed it (which was super easy by the way). Grill reached 400* after 40 minutes, which is an improvement but still not good enough in my opinion. For the next 20 minutes it dropped down to 379 and got back back up to 399...

Finally called Rec Tec. They asked me to check the internal temp probe and pull it away from the exterior (it wasn’t touching it to begin with), and to trim up the foil lining the drip pan on the front and back (which I’m positive was not an issue to begin with either). They then asked that I do...

I tried dialing it back to 500 thinking the same thing, but it hasn’t seemed to make a difference.

My grill is taking well over an hour and half to reach 400 degrees. Today, with outside temps right around 50, it took over an hour to reach 300 and never got above 330. Grill was set on “full”. Using rec tec pellets. Is this par for the course? It’s incredibly frustrating...