Gary Graham
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I am looking for the low level driver package that I do not have. (i2c-bcm2708). I saw a package that I did not see before, so I thought I was seeing the package I needed to enable i2c on the bcm2708 hardware.
This is my first time through all of this, so I will keep working on it and will keep posting my progress to help others on the learning curve.
I hope there are some other folks out there that can help with he software because I am not a programmer by trade. I said I was over my head on my second or third post on this thread, but it is funny to look back and see how much I learned in a couple of weeks by trying something new.
BTW...
I did my first HM cook today, and it looks like I captured a probe going bad. In the past couple of years, my stock of 10 CDN probes have all went wonky. I had profiled my last two probes along with the thermocouple the other day and they were ok at 212. The thermocouple on the HM was within 10 degrees of the handheald thermocouple reader at 650 degrees.
Cook log is on this forum at: http://tvwbb.com/showthread.php?42779-Post-your-HeaterMeter-graphs&p=592535&viewfull=1#post592535
The short story... I used 2 probes, one for the pit and one for meat... the meat probe was in one of the hens, and after two hours it was saying 185, so I pulled the hens and found that the legs and quarters were crispy little critters - not edible at all. This is the first time I smoked chicken with chicken smoke and the last time I will put small meats like that near the bottom.
The meat probe must have been going bad because I moved it to the pork loin when I took out the hens, and it did not act right. I had to reboot the HM to see if it would recover, and shortly after it was saying the pork loin was over 600 degrees.
Not very confident on the remaining probe and I rely on that one for pit temperature control, so I will be researching and buying some new probes for the next cook.
This is my first time through all of this, so I will keep working on it and will keep posting my progress to help others on the learning curve.
I hope there are some other folks out there that can help with he software because I am not a programmer by trade. I said I was over my head on my second or third post on this thread, but it is funny to look back and see how much I learned in a couple of weeks by trying something new.
BTW...
I did my first HM cook today, and it looks like I captured a probe going bad. In the past couple of years, my stock of 10 CDN probes have all went wonky. I had profiled my last two probes along with the thermocouple the other day and they were ok at 212. The thermocouple on the HM was within 10 degrees of the handheald thermocouple reader at 650 degrees.
Cook log is on this forum at: http://tvwbb.com/showthread.php?42779-Post-your-HeaterMeter-graphs&p=592535&viewfull=1#post592535
The short story... I used 2 probes, one for the pit and one for meat... the meat probe was in one of the hens, and after two hours it was saying 185, so I pulled the hens and found that the legs and quarters were crispy little critters - not edible at all. This is the first time I smoked chicken with chicken smoke and the last time I will put small meats like that near the bottom.
The meat probe must have been going bad because I moved it to the pork loin when I took out the hens, and it did not act right. I had to reboot the HM to see if it would recover, and shortly after it was saying the pork loin was over 600 degrees.
Not very confident on the remaining probe and I rely on that one for pit temperature control, so I will be researching and buying some new probes for the next cook.
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