Steve In Pa
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I get more than ample smoke from my tubes when I use about a 50 50 mix of pellets and chips. It billows.
The vertical just by itself requires some human intervention it seems.
On my smoke setting, 130F I get off and on smoke rather than continuous. Here’s my theory.
The panel’s brain says feed pellets until the probe reaches the target temp. To get more smoke I think there needs to be more pellets in the pot than the CP is feeding via the auger. The smoke comes from the smoldering process, so once temp is reached, we need to have some extra pellets in there to just smolder.
So I’ve tried hitting the auger button now and then during the smoke. So far, it seems that bump of pellets, once the target temp is reached, helps then with generating more smoke.
I hope that makes sense.
The vertical just by itself requires some human intervention it seems.
On my smoke setting, 130F I get off and on smoke rather than continuous. Here’s my theory.
The panel’s brain says feed pellets until the probe reaches the target temp. To get more smoke I think there needs to be more pellets in the pot than the CP is feeding via the auger. The smoke comes from the smoldering process, so once temp is reached, we need to have some extra pellets in there to just smolder.
So I’ve tried hitting the auger button now and then during the smoke. So far, it seems that bump of pellets, once the target temp is reached, helps then with generating more smoke.
I hope that makes sense.
