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I think the word you're looking for is "heat sink" which is simply something that absorbs heat. That is frequently something like a piece of aluminum clamped to a component which gets hot to help with dissipating potentially damaging heat. In other words, a heat sink is simply a set of cooling...

What's going on? Is this thing still running? If so it looks to me like you ran out of fuel a little after midnight Saturday night and now (at 4:45am Sunday Morning) the pit temperature and ham temperature is down in the 70's and dropping rapidly. Pretty soon you're gonna have a fully cooked...

That's why I suggested you should wake your wife, she should put on her slippers and go outside to refuel the cooker.

Next try to learn "football". :cool:

Pork ribs. In the morning remove the membrane and give a light dusting of Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning and a heavy dusting of smoked paprika. Let them sit in the refrigerator until you're ready to cook. I cook 'em at 300f for 3.5 hours. Turn them twice and give a little squirt...

WAKE YOUR WIFE UP................You might be running out of fuel at 3:30 a.m. so you had better tell your wife to put on her slippers and go outside to check.

One reason to go fan only is if you want to make an inexpensive temperature controller. I have made several using a cheap Chinese PID controller with a built in relay to control a small radial fan. I 3D print a fan mount/adapter as well as a case for the PID Controller, hook up a few wires and...

Ok............SIT!................ Good boy. Short answer............ just plug in the Raspberry Pi. The reason the Raspberry Pi seems so confusing, at least to me, is that it can do so much stuff. I have one hooked up to my 3D printer so I can control the printer wirelessly. Another is set up...

I'm no guru either but I did just complete a Heatermeter project. I used the 4.3 kit. The online instructions are great. Use your best glasses when you solder. I used a Raspberry Pi 3 B 'cause I'm familiar with them. Works fine. I printed an Adapt-a-damper which I like. I drew my own upper...

It depends on what you think "free" is worth. It looks like the grill is missing the handle on the lower part, but I can't say for sure based on the photo. You could most likely make this unit cook just fine, perhaps with a bit of DIY work. You could easily fit a generic handle from the...

Any chance a reset put you in AP mode by surprise?

Print the threaded adapter. Take it down to your home improvement store and find a copper plumbing part to screw in. Then search around for various elbows, reducers, and so on which will allow you to go from that 1" pipe thread to the inlet of your cooker. Solder or screw everything together...

I'm an avid RC model guy with a box of servos of all kinds. There must be a hundred of them. Some are dirt cheap and some are on the expensive side. NONE of them are dead reliable. Quite a few are dead on arrival and it's not uncommon for them to fail in use. So think about servos like a...

I just finished up building a Heatermeter 4.3 along with a case, a stand, and an Adapt-a-Damper housing. I have a dozen different radial fans, but none of them are the correct size, so I have to wait a few more days until the correct fan is delivered. However, the unit seems to work. I want...

I just printed an Adapt-a-Damper and since I'm a serious RC modeler, I figured I could find a servo to fit by rooting around in my servo supply bin. I must have a hundred servos of various kinds. Surely, I thought, one will fit. Short answer, NO...... none of my servos fit the MG90 topcase...

Problem solved. I put my strong magnifiers on and examined the boards again. There was a tiny piece of loose solder bridging one of the pins of the power MOSFET. It wasn't an actual solder trace but rather just a tiny particle which I could remove by blowing on it; perhaps a speck produced...

I just finished putting together a Heatermeter 4.3 with a Raspberry Pi 3. When I power it via the RPi power port using the Micro USB cable, the device works fine. I can see all the menu items, adjust the probe offset, etc. etc. However, when I try to use the Heatermeter 12volt input, I get...

Several years ago I built a fan-only device to control my Char Griller Kamado cooker using an inexpensive Chinese PID Temperature Controller and a radial computer fan inside a 3D printed box of my own design. It works perfectly once the temperature is stabilized, but it tends to overshoot (both...