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[jmielke]

Hello everyone,

I just recieved the 6 rack as a gift for doing the cooking for a wedding.

Did pulled pork yesterday and had a problem.

Sometime during the process the oven element stopped heating. I finished the pork in the oven and it came out fine.

Then I reconnected all of the cables and was able to get the element to heat again. I'm concerned that it will shut off again, but time will tell.

Anyway thanks for all of the great work on this forum.

Joe

[Arcs_n_Sparks]

jmielke,

Welcome to the forum. Any idea how long was the smoker running before shutting off?

Arcs_n_Sparks

[West Coast Kansan]

Welcome,

I would give it another run just empty so you are comfortable.  A number of reports have been resolved by a good solid push on the big cords.  No problems with recurring shutdowns.

It you run it pick a high temperature like the 280 default and let it go. There is a high temp cutoff that has been reported to activate too soon.

[jmielke]

I'm not sure how long it had been off because I'd set it for the max time and when I checked it in the morning it had 6 minutes left on the oven time and the temp was 50 F.

I'd preheated so I know it was at 210 when I left it.

I was dubious about even continuing the process in the oven not knowing how long it had sat at those low temps. But I figured cooking all day until it reached 180 would be safe. And it turned out fine and no one here is dead yet so . . .

That's a good idea to run it empty. Thanks for the tip.

Joe

[Arcs_n_Sparks]

jmielke,

There were earlier reports of the digital unit timing out after about 9 hours.

Arcs_n_Sparks