My master belt is just like this one except it has a solid door. It will trip the breaker after about 10 hours. The breaker is a arc fault interrupt as required by code 2 years ago. It is 15 amp. I’m thinking that I’ve got a shorted element. do you have any ideas?
@@peterhaughton8110 sounds like your more educated then I on the matter but yeah I think that’s reasonable, or your breaker is wearing out . 10 hours is a heck of a long time to have your smoker on, what are you cooking?
Usually a butt or a picnic. The set temp is usually around 210 to 220 the weight of the meat or often times have me on a 16 hour cook time to get to the plateau of 195. These 800 W heating elements should not pull more than 6 A. That is using ohms law at 115 V minimum. At 66 years old, having been working on cars, including EV’s and hybrids on a professional level for the last 50 years, and having always loved science, physics, and electricity, this stuff makes sense to me and I can work it out in my head . The new house which we are living in, has what are known as arc fault breakers. Typical of the federal government trying to protect us from ourselves, they will trip if you look at them sideways while holding a hairdryer. I can actually think of a scenario where I could hook a digital storage oscilloscope the fault to determine what caused the breaker to trip. But, I would rather drink beer, catch, catfish, and cook chicken wings on my dock.
I was going to suggest that you should get the cold smoker attachment that goes on the side. It hold more chips and works great if you're doing cheese or a long cold smoke on fish, other than that it just is nice that you don't have to keep filling your chips up all the time.
Thanks for the video. My burner seems to be getting a bit weak so I'll be tackling this soon. I have a slightly different model but it looks almost identical. One trick I've learned for cleaning the glass door, use a vinegar/water mixture. Spray it on the glass and let it soak a few minutes. Come back a bit later, spray it again and scrub with a toothbrush. Keep a cup or bowl of water to rinse the brush periodically. It'll get pretty much all the crud off, but honestly, it's not worth the time and effort trying to keep it clean. After one use it'll look the same way again!
Thank you so much. Yours is the only video I found that shows how to wire it on. I’m glad you took the time. Is it still working properly? I’m worried about the new wires being thinner.
It is only 800 W at 120 V. You could probably get by with 18 gauge wire for that distance for years and years without overloading the circuit. I don’t know what wire gauge is with the kit, but I’m sure that it is sufficient.
Really good tutorial. Not too much fluff. Keeps things safe, and explains how to do it.
My master belt is just like this one except it has a solid door. It will trip the breaker after about 10 hours. The breaker is a arc fault interrupt as required by code 2 years ago. It is 15 amp. I’m thinking that I’ve got a shorted element. do you have any ideas?
@@peterhaughton8110 sounds like your more educated then I on the matter but yeah I think that’s reasonable, or your breaker is wearing out . 10 hours is a heck of a long time to have your smoker on, what are you cooking?
Usually a butt or a picnic. The set temp is usually around 210 to 220 the weight of the meat or often times have me on a 16 hour cook time to get to the plateau of 195.
These 800 W heating elements should not pull more than 6 A. That is using ohms law at 115 V minimum.
At 66 years old, having been working on cars, including EV’s and hybrids on a professional level for the last 50 years, and having always loved science, physics, and electricity, this stuff makes sense to me and I can work it out in my head .
The new house which we are living in, has what are known as arc fault breakers. Typical of the federal government trying to protect us from ourselves, they will trip if you look at them sideways while holding a hairdryer.
I can actually think of a scenario where I could hook a digital storage oscilloscope the fault to determine what caused the breaker to trip.
But, I would rather drink beer, catch, catfish, and cook chicken wings on my dock.
I was going to suggest that you should get the cold smoker attachment that goes on the side. It hold more chips and works great if you're doing cheese or a long cold smoke on fish, other than that it just is nice that you don't have to keep filling your chips up all the time.
Thanks for the video. My burner seems to be getting a bit weak so I'll be tackling this soon. I have a slightly different model but it looks almost identical. One trick I've learned for cleaning the glass door, use a vinegar/water mixture. Spray it on the glass and let it soak a few minutes. Come back a bit later, spray it again and scrub with a toothbrush. Keep a cup or bowl of water to rinse the brush periodically. It'll get pretty much all the crud off, but honestly, it's not worth the time and effort trying to keep it clean. After one use it'll look the same way again!
What cleaning solution did you use? It looked like it worked really well!
Thanks
I was going to ask the same thing.
Thank you so much. Yours is the only video I found that shows how to wire it on. I’m glad you took the time. Is it still working properly? I’m worried about the new wires being thinner.
Yeah everything’s working fine with it, used it about a dozen times with no problems.
It is only 800 W at 120 V. You could probably get by with 18 gauge wire for that distance for years and years without overloading the circuit. I don’t know what wire gauge is with the kit, but I’m sure that it is sufficient.
Question, what's in the blue bottle? How did you clean the inside?
CitruSafe grill cleaner. Spray, scrub, wipe, repeat.
I've used that also. It works really well.