Rich Dahl
R.I.P. 7/21/2024
As some of you know I've had my issues with Thermoworks on a few of their products. I will say their customer service has always been one step above. Which I appreciate, so before I drop this one on them, I thought I would run it by the forum to see what our experts think.
I just replaced the controller in my Camp Chef to a non Wi-Fi PID controller. I cooked up two whole chickens as a test to make sure it was working correctly. Set it at smoke 1 and 325 temp, it fired right up and settled down according to the controller around 320 - 335 and stayed steady. Just to see how accurate it was I hooked up my Thermoworks smoke and put the grill probe right next to the Camp Chefs probe. I was shocked to see a reading of 420. It was the original smoke probe, so I changed it out with one of the new spares I had, same reading. Tried a third probe and changed ports in the smoke same thing.
The chickens took about two hours to reach 165 internal which was about right for the 325 setting.
The only thing I can think is the fan moving the hot air around confuses the probe.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'm confident that the CC is working correctly but I still would like to be able to monitor remotely without an APP.
FYI the meat probe worked just fine.
I just replaced the controller in my Camp Chef to a non Wi-Fi PID controller. I cooked up two whole chickens as a test to make sure it was working correctly. Set it at smoke 1 and 325 temp, it fired right up and settled down according to the controller around 320 - 335 and stayed steady. Just to see how accurate it was I hooked up my Thermoworks smoke and put the grill probe right next to the Camp Chefs probe. I was shocked to see a reading of 420. It was the original smoke probe, so I changed it out with one of the new spares I had, same reading. Tried a third probe and changed ports in the smoke same thing.
The chickens took about two hours to reach 165 internal which was about right for the 325 setting.
The only thing I can think is the fan moving the hot air around confuses the probe.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'm confident that the CC is working correctly but I still would like to be able to monitor remotely without an APP.
FYI the meat probe worked just fine.