Sscottfitz
Well-known member
Soooooo, I'm about 3.5 hrs into what is (was) going to be a 11~12 hour burn (Boston butt), and all of a sudden my temps plunge.....unexplainable as the grill was still closed, auger sounded like it was moving, etc. Long story short, after the only successful call to Rec Tec (as of this note.....) I was advised to try to "jiggle the pellet box" to clear any possible pellet dams, which I did, but temps continued dropping........ So as any good Info Systems Engineer knows, you turn the system off and back on again.....and THAT is when it got exciting........ Anyway, my diagnosis is that the auger was still feeding pellets into and out of the firebox (see the attached pictures and video....) when I reset the system, the firebox/burner came back on, and of course it's now literally buried in a pile of pellets..........now THAT was some smoke. Waiting for the lower grill to cool off so I can clean out the unspent pellets and ash around the firebox while waiting for the Rec Tec bubbas to get back to me......... Hoping this was just an anomaly......OBTW, the Boston Butt is now in the oven....... Note: Think the Rec Tec guys have out grown their support system, have been trying to get a call into them for over an hour with no luck.......hopefully they'll get my e-mail........