It's very odd. I've had my mini for just under a year. In the last month I started to lose control of temperature. I call it odd because it wasn't a problem I had at all for the first year.
Very simply stated I will set the smoker to 225 degrees and it won't ever settle in anywhere close to that temp. I've seen it go up and stick around 280 degrees and never come on back down. At best in the past few uses it hasn't stayed even 30 degrees close to where it is set.
I'm not talking about comparing temperatures to what my Maverick shows, simply what temp the Rec Tec thinks it is.
Cleaned the smoker out last weekend, but had the same issue yesterday. I dropped the temp to 200 and even then was bumping up and sticking around 250. I can open the smoker to allow the temp to drop back down but it quickly goes back up once I close. While I'm not positive, it also seems like it gets worse over time. Starting to pay more attention now and document what I'm seeing.
Should also add that I've compared it to my Maverick temps and while they aren't equal they are going up and down roughly equally so I don't think it's something related to the temp being read incorrectly by the controller.
Any random thoughts on this? Any type of reset on the controller?
Planning to reach out to support but through I would ask if anyone has seen anything like this before.
Thanks all.
-John
Very simply stated I will set the smoker to 225 degrees and it won't ever settle in anywhere close to that temp. I've seen it go up and stick around 280 degrees and never come on back down. At best in the past few uses it hasn't stayed even 30 degrees close to where it is set.
I'm not talking about comparing temperatures to what my Maverick shows, simply what temp the Rec Tec thinks it is.
Cleaned the smoker out last weekend, but had the same issue yesterday. I dropped the temp to 200 and even then was bumping up and sticking around 250. I can open the smoker to allow the temp to drop back down but it quickly goes back up once I close. While I'm not positive, it also seems like it gets worse over time. Starting to pay more attention now and document what I'm seeing.
Should also add that I've compared it to my Maverick temps and while they aren't equal they are going up and down roughly equally so I don't think it's something related to the temp being read incorrectly by the controller.
Any random thoughts on this? Any type of reset on the controller?
Planning to reach out to support but through I would ask if anyone has seen anything like this before.
Thanks all.
-John
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