This has been a bad weekend for my FE-100 and me.
I had twelve butts on and fourteen racks of ribs prepared for cooking yesterday. In four hours after butts were on I find a breaker had tripped. I pulled off hopper and controls and carefully dumped out all pellets, thinking maybe the auger was stuck and overloaded the circuit. Left the hopper off the cooker and operated on the ground until all pellets were out. Operated fine for 10 minutes. Reinstalled and it tripped again in less than a minute. Pulled back off and repeated first process.
Reinstalled unit and now my T-stat runs full throttle. Thermostat set at 180 and inside shelf temp 425!!!!!!. Turned stat to smoke setting and temperature now 225!! I guess my temperature controller has gone bad.
Anyone have any suggestions or something that I might have missed? Iced down everything tonight and will try again tommorrow. If anything I am still able to cook at the smoke setting which is 225.
Your thoughts are appreciated!!
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