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hello all,
please help if you can. i bought my fe 100 used so i dont have a manual. sometimes when i start my my fe, the digital temp reading stays at whatever the outside temp is, so it keeps adding pellets. just now i put a small handful of pellets in the burn chamber that i cleaned out. turn temp to i guess the 250 mark. the temp is on 70. i watch as smoke starts comming out the pipe. put my meat on. notice the temp is still on 70. wait about 5 more minutes. open door to look at the burn chamber, got a good burn going. look at temp, still at 70. cut off the fe. wait a couple minutes, turn back on to 250 mark, the temp reads 305. what am i adoing wrong. temp is falling down. this has happened almost everyother time i cook. fe 100 was made in november '05. i love this thing, just need to learn it. thanks for any help.

6/13/065:49 PM

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You can go to the CS main site and download the manual for an FE100.

Could be a bad controller or another problem.

1. when you say it's on 70, that's just where it starts. Are the pellets igniting fully?

Try this, take 1/2 handful of pellets and put in the burn pot and turn the smoker on. Let it go for about 5 or 6 min and see if it ignites fully.

What is happening is the igniter turns on for just the first 3 min, and if they don't start burning the pellets will keep coming out and piling up in the pot

THEN...when you turn it off and turn it on, the pot full of pellets ignites and goes really hot.

6/13/066:02 PM

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i start with a small handfull of pellets. they are burning good, temp was at 305. was just checking on my pork, noticed temp read 240. opened door checked meat temp, closed door. noticed temp was still 240. waited 5 minutes, temp was still 240. temp should have dropped since door was open. cut unit off, cut it back on, temp was at 270. this is after cooking for 1 hour.

6/13/066:21 PM

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swamp,
ok try this it worked on my sm150 don't see why it won't work here also.
take a green scrubbie and saturate it in cheap lemon juice. carefully scrub your probe. dry it off. if you can put 2 remote thermos in the unit a little above and below the fec probe. note your temps over a 2 hour period. they should be somewhat near. not exact just near. if the range is too far out (75f or more) get with cookshack.
in both cases of my fec and 2 sm's just scrubbie'ing the probe is all i needed to to do.
was a problem tho since we cook for sale and not comps.
jack

6/13/067:48 PM

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thanks, ill try that.

6/13/068:59 PM

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