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FEC not coming up to Temp

S southdakotaMember
I have a son and daughter graduating tomorrow and we're throwing a party starting at 5 today.
I started smoking 12 butts at 4pm yesterday and pulled them off at 7 this morning...temp working very well. I emptied the ash pot...put 30 racks into the smoker...set it at 224 and it only went up to 180. I put a probe in and the temp reading on the IQ was the same as the probe. I raised the temp to 350 and the inside temp got to 208.
I have another motor so I installed it. When taking the auger out I noticed one of the bolts to the auger was VERY loose. Don't know if that would cause the problem.
New motor is working well and the temps are where they are supposed to be.
Saved the replaced motor just in case.
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FM Former Member
Thanks for the info, sounds like a little preventive maintenance is in order when we look at our FE, just check the bolts among other things.

I haven't heard of that before, but good to know, someone else will encounter the issue.

That's what great about the forum, we "collect" your experience(s)

Good, and bad Big Grin
FM Former Member
quote:
Originally posted by SouthDakota:
... Crap! didn't write down the smokin temps and down time LOL


Sure you can, new rib recipe.

Cook for 2 hours, turn it off for two hours, then bump the temp up to 350.

Try it a couple of times (you try it Smiler and let us know.

The 2 - 2 - 1 high heat/turn off method
T tomMember
We cooked along side a top KCBS cook for years,and he was also number five in MIM for Ribs.

Ribdog will know him,and he was notorious for kicking the cables out on his FECs,or order exotic Euro remote therm/controllers-that would go off and kill the FEC for a couple hrs.

Don't think we ever did a cook,that he didn't have another story-especially ribs.

Smokin' also knew him as the first of the great hot temp chicken cooks on the FEC.
Luckily, they were a short cook.

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