HELP! Maverick Question

[thegozzzz]

Hi all,

New to the site, old smoker, most recently 3yrs with obs. I just purchased a 6 rack dbs, Auber pid and maverick 73. I appreciate your posts, and I'm sure that I will benefit from your sharing information and experiences with this equipment. I've also found the on/off switch under the cover if the 73 to be inconvenient.

[Habanero Smoker]

this is a non mod question, if i am doing 2 pork roasts can i use another internal probe in place of the chamber probe so i can watch
internal temp on both?

Yes. When I purchased my Raptor/Guru (Competitor), I ordered another meat probe so the ET-73 can monitor two internal meat temperatures. The only thing you have to keep in mind is that you have to set the probe that is hooked to the "smoker" plug first and that temperature has to be equal or higher then the temperature you are going to set for the probe that is connected to the "food" plug.

[Mr Walleye]

Thanks for binging this back up guys. I know in the original thread I tried and tried with no improvement. I ordered a new ET73 last summer and kinda forgot about it sitting here. So today I performed surgery on it. I soldered it across the 3 points, used 22 gauge wire, and measured the wire 6.5 inches from the solder joint....

Voila!... works perfect!  ;D

My smokers are in my detached garage which is about 65 feet from the house. Both the garage and house are stucco which means there is stucco wire on the exterior walls. None of the ET73 units would ever read anywhere in my house.

Now... I can read it anywhere in the house!  ;D

I have no idea why it didn't work on my old one so I decided to rip it apart and investigate. I had a look at my solder joints under a magnifying glass and they looked fine but I decided to re-solder them anyway... Voila!... It works too!  ;D

Go figure... even though the solder joints looked fine one of them obviously wasn't.

Thanks again for bringing this up... I had just forgot about it.

Mike

[pensrock]

Mike,
Did you use anything to hold the wire up like a piece of hollow tubing, like in the instructions?
pens

[Mr Walleye]

Mike,
Did you use anything to hold the wire up like a piece of hollow tubing, like in the instructions?
pens

Pens

This time I used some 22 gauge solid core copper wire. Mainly because I had it around but it does stand up nice. I just had to be careful when putting it together as not to stress the circuit board. Worked great though.

Mike

[pensrock]

Thanks, that sounds good.

[Tiny Tim]

this is a non mod question, if i am doing 2 pork roasts can i use another internal probe in place of the chamber probe so i can watch
internal temp on both?

With my PID in place, I don't feel the need to monitor the cabinet temp any more, so if I have 2 pieces of meat in the smoker, I just jam the cabinet probe into the second piece.  Works fine without having to buy a second food probe.

[Up In Smoke]

thanks habs and tiny tim,
i was kinda wondering about the cabinet probe...i will give that a shot next time around.