JimG
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Background: Just recently replaced controller and screen do to temp issues. See other posts.
Yesterday morning did the 3-2-1 method of smoking ribs. They came out perfect. Went through the shutdown procedure, cleaned the EX4 and cranked it back up for chicken wings. Although, I just went through 6 plus hours of flawless cooking performance, the SmokeFire was shut at 170 degrees and would not reach the 275 target. Decided increase target temp to 300. The temp climbed and promptly overshot by 75 degrees. Then started falling.
The reason seems to be that when I did the shutdown, I did not power the unit down. Why should I? I was planning on using it again. Decided to do another shutdown and power the unit down for 5 minutes. Cranked it back up and it worked flawlessly again. I'm sure that during my SmokeFire "troubles" that I did not in fact power down each time.
When in doubt, power it down.
Yesterday morning did the 3-2-1 method of smoking ribs. They came out perfect. Went through the shutdown procedure, cleaned the EX4 and cranked it back up for chicken wings. Although, I just went through 6 plus hours of flawless cooking performance, the SmokeFire was shut at 170 degrees and would not reach the 275 target. Decided increase target temp to 300. The temp climbed and promptly overshot by 75 degrees. Then started falling.
The reason seems to be that when I did the shutdown, I did not power the unit down. Why should I? I was planning on using it again. Decided to do another shutdown and power the unit down for 5 minutes. Cranked it back up and it worked flawlessly again. I'm sure that during my SmokeFire "troubles" that I did not in fact power down each time.
When in doubt, power it down.