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I had a fan go out on me this weekend at a comp I was at in Kentucky. My FEC worked fine all night long until about 6:00 am. I noticed my fire was dropping and I am pretty in tune with my FEC. I opened the door and realied the fire was just smoldering. Couldn't get it going properly, even after emptying the pot. Reached under to see if the pot fan was still working and it wasn't. I had to switch all of my meat over to my FE that I use only for my ribs...

Well, to make a long story short, I spoke with Stuart on Saturday to ask some questions. This was after I had talked with Eddy on Friday evening. But how cool is that, that you can talk to these guys about problems. Now I must admit, this is the first problem that I have had with any of my cookers and I cook a bunch on these pits. I have been a FE owner since 2001 and I have had my FEC for 3+ seasons. So it's not like I have problems over the years. They are solid cookers.

So I just wanted to thank Stuart for taking time out to save me last weekend and for getting my cooker ready for this weekends contest. Thanks also go out to Eddy. If you have never talked to him over the phone, he usually knows exactly what is going on.

So thanks guys.

Oh, BTW that contest I was cooking in last weekend. I am happy to report that I went on to win the GC. Pellet cookers are the tops!

Scottie
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I should also point out how easy it was to replace the fan. You have to do a little mods because of the self tapping screws that hold it up (basically cut the corners off the fan, but that was easy with some snips), but it mabey took me 30 minutes to do. Didn't even get my hands dirty... Roll Eyes
Congrats Scottie,

If you're ever at a comp and have a problem, find me, I always have spare parts.

And you're right about Stuart. More than once at a contest, I've called him about something one a someone's smoker if I couldn't understand the issue. Rare, but it does happen.

Eddy doesn't return my calls... LOL

Congrats on the GC.
Scottie, that happened on mine at two months old. CS was quick to send replacement but in the mean time, I found that Radio Shack has a $20.00 12 VDC muffin fan on their shelves that bolts on. I carry that as a spare. Also I found the plugs they are using fail and after the new fan arrived I found it would not plug into the feed line. Just a touch different. So I hard wired it in.

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