Heating Element Went Out

[LanduytG]

Was having issues with maintaining temps the other day. Then it would not get over 100 deg. Did some checking and the element is bad. The smoker is only 6 months old. Bradley is sending me another element. I had another element here because I was going to do the 2 element mod. Do these elements go out very often? I hope it was just a fluke.

Greg

[Saber 4]

I think it's probably luck of the draw, some here have had the same element for years and others have had problems with theirs.

[TedEbear]

If you have a multimeter check the resistance across the element with one or both wires disconnected from it.  A working element should read around 27-32 ohms.  Sometimes a loose plug or wire somewhere is misdiagnosed as a bad element.

[LanduytG]

Check the element and its defiantly bad 6.3 meg ohms.