Recent content by RWilloughby

I've cooking some spare ribs right now and trying to keep this steady. I'm on a Vision Classic B.

@KeithC - My top vent was 1/4 of an inch open. I would think having the top vent all the way open would make it uncontrollable? I'll put my hot embers on top of my coal, instead of under and see how that does. The damper is superglued shut so it will be hard to see what fan I'm using. I'll...

Hello all, I need help. I purchased this damper back in 2015 for my Vision Classic B. I've always had issues with it maintaining the temp while using the micro damper. Sadly I have better luck not using it. I do know a year after I purchased this, Steve upgrade the fan that's in mine. I'm...

Thanks Ralph, I ended up upgrading to the Thermoworks probes and have not looked back! I should have started with these!!

Thanks all. Ralph, can you give me some guidance on how to test those regulators? I have a analog multimeter. I've got a new RasPi coming to me. Once I validate my HM board is still good, I'll order some thermoworks.

I smoked a pork shoulder on Saturday and it turned out awesome, best one I've made. I started it at 10:30pm Friday night and it was going great until 11:30am. I checked my display and it was stalled it seemed at 130. I came back at 12pm and the screen was gibberish, box was hot - backing in...

THANK YOU STEVE!!! Success on my end! I ended up cleaning up all joints and they look much better now - as well as being functional. So I guess my old HMB was still good, it was just bad connection to the RasPi due to my bad solder job. Oh well, at least I now have a working LCD screen...

Sure, Here you go:

Sadly no, same results with nothing returned. I ended up breaking out of it.

Thanks Steve, I ran the cat command and nothing was returned so broke out of it. When I ran the hmdude command I had the same results as before - ' Can't set AVR programming mode (0x00) ' When I soldered the pins on, could I have messed something up there? Should I reflow my connections on...

Ok, tests completed using my multimeter set to DCV 10: Test 1 - (no RasPi attached) I saw a very slight movement on TX & GND. It was almost like a heartbeat. Test 2 - (with RasPi attached), nothing registered when I touched the RX & GND .

Thanks Steve. Ok, found those pads. All I have is a multimeter. Being I've not heard of bouncing voltage before, please provide guidance on this. Do I simply use my multimeter and put a prob on each pad and see if it bounces back and forth?

Ok, I have a new 4.2.4 board, LCD shows no pit probe, and can go through settings. So all good there, minus no wifi. I have the latest snapshot on a microsd card for the pie zero w and can boot up and connect to the home network fine. So Zero is good by itself. The issue comes when I attach...

I haven't found anything glaring with my current board, so throwing in the towel with it. I was looking at the assembled kits and noticed that the 4.2.4 board description only says Raspberry Pi (Model A or B (original), Raspberry Pi Zero , whereas the 4.3 board says Raspberry Pi (Zero, Zero W...

Thanks Steve. Hope its not the new Pi Zero W I just got! I'll do the trace and go from there. I don't have an extra chip, so that is off table.