Temperature control vs smoke production

I have been fooling around with this too on my PG500. I know we both smoke at high altitude so I thought I would chime in...

I was actually trying to reduce smoke on some 100% pecan pellets. I found adjusting LHT to 15 normalized swings a bit and also made sure at very low temps it stayed lit on overnight smokes. After a while I just put LHT back to 10 and made double sure it came to temp and normalized there for a while regardless of swing before I set final temp. I like the graph feature of the iGrill to track how the pit behaves. Current thinking is to leave at LHT at 10 and not worry about it. I would be interested in your findings.

Shortstop,

I've been using HHT to attempt control the temperature swings.

I just purchased a ThermoWorks BlueTherm® Duo and used it for the first time yesterday while doing some ribs and was amazed with what I logged.

I'll be calling Cookshack today for a better understanding of what I saw.

I would be interested in what you logged...

I was seeing 30 degree swings and could not change them with the HHt setting.

I've talked to Cookshack and at their suggestion, I've raised the cap on the smoke stack.

I will try again soon.