ROCKEWEHARD
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- Location
- N. California / Bay Area
- Grill
- EX6, OG 22" KETTLE
So I finally fired the EX6 up today to do the burn in.....450-475 for about an hour as per the updated manual...all went well. Lowered temp to 250 to see how she smokes....had lid open to help cool....she got to 250 and all was good. lowered to 225 and all was good. decided id put some Thermoworks probes in and see what the center pit temp was vs the controller.. temps were reading a bit lower than the SF so I was playing with the set temp to se how it did....went back up to 250, she sat there for a bit then had a flame out.
No auto relight is a major thing they need to fix / add. Hard to believe any new Pellet smoker made today would not have this feature. its simple, if temp falls below "X" percent of set temp, re-energize the glow plug and speed up the fan.
Anyway......
I put the grill into shut down which in its process actually started the fire again as the fan pulses a high speeds...thought maybe if i power down and turn back on i could just enter a set temp and it would heat back up since the fire was burning. Nope...that didn't happen, told me improper shut down and went back into shut down mode. after it shut down i re-lit and set to 250. display showed it was at 250...TW Smoke said it was well over 375 and then the SF display started climbing.
i figure this was from excessive pellets in pot from flame out so i bump set temp to 350...units gets to 350 and then flames out again. put it back into shut down which again relit the fire...units is fully shut down now. debating if i want to try to cook on it tonight. I'm guessing the second flame out may have been my fault...maybe both were but not sure. it seems it doesn't do well trying to lower the set temp when its hot....goes from low to high fine.
Also the lid which at the start of the cook didn't close all the way on the left side (if you are looking at it) now seems to have an even gap on both sides and has maybe 1/4" of play in it...closes fine if i press it down. the Lid is rather stiff to open and close. is this normal? I want to say I've seen something about lid issues but don't remember exactly what it was or if there was a fix.
Thoughts...experiences...fixes. I'm all ears, thanks in advance.
No auto relight is a major thing they need to fix / add. Hard to believe any new Pellet smoker made today would not have this feature. its simple, if temp falls below "X" percent of set temp, re-energize the glow plug and speed up the fan.
Anyway......
I put the grill into shut down which in its process actually started the fire again as the fan pulses a high speeds...thought maybe if i power down and turn back on i could just enter a set temp and it would heat back up since the fire was burning. Nope...that didn't happen, told me improper shut down and went back into shut down mode. after it shut down i re-lit and set to 250. display showed it was at 250...TW Smoke said it was well over 375 and then the SF display started climbing.
i figure this was from excessive pellets in pot from flame out so i bump set temp to 350...units gets to 350 and then flames out again. put it back into shut down which again relit the fire...units is fully shut down now. debating if i want to try to cook on it tonight. I'm guessing the second flame out may have been my fault...maybe both were but not sure. it seems it doesn't do well trying to lower the set temp when its hot....goes from low to high fine.
Also the lid which at the start of the cook didn't close all the way on the left side (if you are looking at it) now seems to have an even gap on both sides and has maybe 1/4" of play in it...closes fine if i press it down. the Lid is rather stiff to open and close. is this normal? I want to say I've seen something about lid issues but don't remember exactly what it was or if there was a fix.
Thoughts...experiences...fixes. I'm all ears, thanks in advance.