Smokette 020 Problem

Wonder if the PB is against the internal probe?

don't think so. All of a sudden the temp jumped 100 degrees, then quickly went to 225, then started jumping all over the place. I think maybe the controller is going bad or something. All of this happened within about a 10 minute time span.

Don't know, guess it could be the cold weather playing games on the controller. Do you have an extra probe you can put in the top hole, to see what temp the smoker is?

I would try cleaning the temp prob inside the oven, sometimes once they get built up with crud they can cause erratic behavior.

Just got home from dinner and the temperature seems to have stabilized. It's reading about 220 now (on the digital readout) and the internal probe on the PB is reading 140. Going to bed now and we'll see what tomorrow brings.

With the LCD displays cold whether tends to wreck havic with the DISPLAY but not the operation.

Option 1: For my FEC, I use a lightbulb near the LED to keep it "warm" and I have no cold weather issues.

Option 2: For cold weather ops is to get a remote probe and use it to monitor the internal smoker temp / meat temp.