The WSCGC with FireBoard and Fan Control

[DWCowles]

Beautiful ham!

[MWOE2007]

Ok I am confused. So the Fireboard runs the pit viper. Do you just buy the pit viper from BBQ Guru? How is this different than using the DigiQ? Will the DigiQ do the same thing? Sorry for all the questions but I definitely would like to get something like this for my kettle and haven’t seen much of these fan set ups.

[ecowper]

Or you can buy a fan from Fireboard. They are selling a 20cfm Auber

[Spinaker]

I am using my Pit Viper because I had the Digi Q. You can control the fan speed and adjust pit temps, remotely, with Fireboard. Not possible with my Digi Q DX2. I think you can do that on the Cadillac Guru, though.

[MWOE2007]

Ok makes sense. Thanks for info

[ecowper]

lonnie mac couple questions for you ....

The WSCGC has different air intake vents than a standard Weber, but I'm curious if you have to close up the rest of the vent that the fan isn't attached to? I imagine not on that grill. But I figure on my WSM I would need to close off the holes in the vent that the fan is not plugged into. Thoughts?

Did you try adjusting your set point completely remote? Like away from the house and entirely via internet/cloud access?

[lonnie mac]

Yea brother, the WSCGC has the one touch system, so it is completely closed. The fan is attached to the built in fan port, so all the air has to come from the fan. On a WSM, you would keep two of the lower vents completely closed, and with the pit viper weber fan adapter you would attach that to the third lower vent in one of the three holes. The fan adapter came with some silver tape to close off the remaining two holes on that vent, lest you drill a hole for the fan adapter, in which case you would keep all three lower vents completely closed. The top vent is just barely opened, in my case it worked out to be about an 1/8".

I did adjust my set point remotely using the app. Easy peasy!

Now one thing I have found, and possibly FireBoard is working on it, but the fan works off of the app only. That's where you can control the fan setpoint, or % fan, see the green fan graph and such. I mostly use my computer during cooks with the FireBoard, and maybe some day they can bring that function to the desktop too. You can do everything else using the desktop with the FireBoard anyway, this would be cool too. As it is you can't see the fan graph or % on the desktop.

[ecowper]

Okay, very helpful and what I was thinking.

[Spinaker]

My cable arrived today! For the first cook, I am going to give it a go with a pork shoulder. I figure this will give me a solid look at how it compares to the Digi Q.

[Danjohnston949]

You Should Have Fewer Cables to Mind❗️ But I expect You will Mostly have Positive, Instantaneous Feed Back and Records and Graphs of the Same‼️ 👍👍👍👍👍 🤗😇🤗 👍👍👍👍👍
From a Backyard Cremator in Fargo ND, Dan

[Spinaker]

Dan, Yes and I am looking forward to that. Danjohnston949

[lonnie mac]

Great brother!! I hope you like it! I can only say how well it works with the WSCGC so far. It will be great to start seeing how it works with other cookers.

[DWCowles]

Well heck, here I go again reaching in my pocket to feed my MCS. 😡