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Offline TCP

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Vent Settings
« on: August 22, 2010, 06:21:34 am »
How is one to determine how much the vent on a OBS should be open/closed during a smoke?
I had is wide open yesterday and it looked like Cheech and Chong in their van.  :P
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Offline pensrock

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2010, 06:42:28 am »
Mine stays 3/4 to wide open ALL the time. The generator makes plenty of smoke.
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Offline SouthernSmoked

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2010, 06:45:34 am »
I agree with pensrock 3/4" - wide open. 

Remember Cheech and Chong with the window cracked   --- let the smoke roll!
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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2010, 06:47:36 am »

Mine is permanently fused open...
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Offline KyNola

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2010, 07:40:29 am »
Not sure mine will move anymore either.  Glued pretty much wide open.
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Offline Quarlow

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2010, 08:07:55 am »
Wide open for poultry and at least half way open for everything else. I usually have mine 3/4's also.
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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2010, 08:26:21 am »
I removed mine in the Hotel Bradley.
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Offline Jim O

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2010, 09:19:15 am »

Wide for mine !!

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2010, 11:15:28 am »
3/4 to full open
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Offline TestRocket

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2010, 02:13:22 pm »
Open all the way all the time. One less variable!
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Offline Habanero Smoker

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2010, 02:06:12 am »
Here is a guide that may help zero in on your vent settings.

Vent Adjustment
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Offline TCP

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Re: Vent Settings
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2010, 09:07:16 am »
Thanks for all the input into vent settings.
I am sitting at my desk eating the last of the smoked chicken breast I did Saturday,yummmmmmmmmmm.

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