Just had my first flame out! :)

[Michael_in_TX]

So we had a major cold front come through yesterday. Outside it is about 45 F with wind gusts from the north at 20 mph. My Chimp is perpendicular to the direction of the wind; the wind is just hitting it constant from behind.

I'm doing jerky, so I'm rolling at 190 F, which is quite low. Normally, this low I run on PID mode, but I forgot and kept it on PRO. About an hour into the cook, I got the low temp alarm -- never had that before! -- and yep, we flamed out. What probably happened is that during the low point on the PRO cycle, a gust of wind just took it out.

The Chimp did recover on its own after I switched it to PID mode, which was quite nice.

[FireMan]

It’s good yer chimp is still alive & recovered.

[Michael_in_TX]

I hesitated to even do the jerky today, but I am curious to see if the dry air and extra convection, courtesy of the wind, will make any impact.

[BruceB]

Some cold weather +/- 30F and some wind caused a flameout on my Silverbac this morning during startup.

I ran it yesterday up to 400F for 20 minutes or so to make sure things were working for today's rib cook, three racks of baby backs, and to burn off all the gunk and condensation. It lives outside under its Grilla cover..

It made it up to about 170F before the ErL message came on. I didn't dive into it to as I had recently vacuumed it out and there shouldn't have been piles of ash in there. I just turned it off and on again. It took a while to break the 200F point but it's been good since then. The light wind, more than a breeze, is coming from the right side of the cooker, so blowing into the exhaust stack.

[Purc]

We had strong winds come through DFW yesterday as well. I was smoking on the Bronco and had the Weber Kettle lid open in the lid bail and the wind caught the grill lid like a sail and the grill ended up in the back yard, even with the SnS and the charcoal chimney with it.

[Davek8282]

-18 here last night you will get no sympathy for a balmy 45 degree's

[BruceB]

Yeah, you guys keep sending that cold air down here to Puget Sound!