Now Fec100 Will Not Ignite

The best way is with starter gell but fluid will work.

If you use lighter fluid I'd recommend you let the fire go a while to burn the fluid off. Wal-Mart sell a green alcohol gel that you might want to pick up and have on hand.

By letting the fire go awhile do you mean letting it burn before I load the meat?

Get some of those wax bars of something non toxic. I'd never use lighter fluid, it will take a while for it to burn off.

Remember, you just had a grease fire and that very well could have fried the ignitor.

I always manually start my fire because of a finicky GFI circuit I have to use. I buy a one gallon can of alcohol from Home Depot and fill a squirt bottle. It only takes a few squirts and a few minutes, even in cold weather, and it's good to go.

I cooked on it since the grease fire with no problem. Not sure if the fire had anything to do with it since it worked after the fire. I used a small amount of lighter fluid this morning, had to cook today and had no choice. I left the door open for several minutes after I started the fire before loading the meat. Been cooking now for about 5 1/2 hours.

A shot of WD 40 or a couple of pumps of Alcohol based hand sanitizer on top of a hand full of pellets Let er burn off your good to go

I count my lucky stars that I'm one of the ones that hasn't had this problem. The few times over the past two years that mine failed to ignite after a few minutes, I just shut it off, restarted, and it lit right up. Hope you get things worked out.

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Make sure you do a good clean up between smokes and vacuum out the fire pot. A little maintenance goes a long way. I really don't like any type of starter fluid or gels but have found that a small propane torch only takes a few seconds to get the pellets fired up and smoking if the igniters are giving you trouble. If the igniters are causing problems use that great customer service, they have heard it all and will get you on the right track.