So i recently moved and didn’t want to bring my first grill to my new nice house so i pressure washed it making sure to not spray at any electronics, the hot pot or temp prob. So when i set it to smoke and leave my grill open it smokes alot like very thick then it catches up but it doesn’t regulate temps. If I leave it in the smoke setting (or any setting) it just keep going up and my auger keeps spinning and I thinks it’s either feeding the pelleted to fast to many or maybe fan blowing to fast I’m not sure. Anyone has any suggestions/tips/or advice on how to fix or trouble shoot. Please give me your guidance it is greatly appreciated.
by Imaginary_Rule_7243
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I meant dirty grill* also first but not what I tried to write there lol. Thanks in advance everyone if anyone has had any issiues like this or know how I could trouble shoot it
So yea it will just keep going up in temps and it reads the temps good just don’t keep it regulated at the temp I set it to. So I’ll be on smoke or 180 n it will keep flaming up to 300+ before I turn it off
How long are you waiting before turning it off when the temp keeps rising?
How long before you panic and turn it off? 5 minutes? 15 minutes? half an hour?
Most all PID controllers will overshoot the temperature for a bit. A 5 minute overshoot during a 5 hour smoke will not make a difference to a 10 pound pork butt or brisket neither will a 10 minute dip.
I presume you are doing this with the lid closed correct. First, set the temperature to 250 or something other than smoke. Open the lid, wait for the pellets to ignite and you see/feel heat. Then close the lid and watch the temperature over the span of a half hour. If the temperature just keeps rising beyond 350 it probably is a problem.
I replaced my Zgrill controller with the one on Amazon. It’s way better. And has built in food temp probes. I went through 2 Zgrill controllers having nothing but error codes and shutting down.
Mine would do this too and it’s because the hopper is feeding too much. Completely clean out the igniter area. If you have a wet vacc, suck up all the ash on the insides and whatever pellets are in area. The ash messes with the temp sensor at the igniter and tells the system it needs more pellets. This causes a bigger fire than you want.