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This has happened again ... Interestingly it was just the upper 2 "unused" ports - the MES PIT is always plugged into the 3 as is the PIT and those are fine. Possible jack corrosion? How to test?

Thanks Bryan for the part number. I just found 4, "pre-owned" but looking good, on ePray. He's asking $33 and I've offered $15; might consider going to $20. Not a big deal otherwise as It's mostly wifi access. For this 2nd build (thanks for prompt shipping on the kit!) I'll use another Pi Zero...

My search fu may well be weak - but I cant' find information on a 4 line LCD build. The only thing I found was from 2015 and no P/N listed. I am building a successor to my Heatermeter Buddy build and want to go with a 4 line display. I don't need anything fancy - a 4 line Part # comparable to...

My heatermeter (and Heatermeter Buddy) got caught in a brief shower a couple of weeks ago. It didn't seem like it got too wet but yesterday when set up again the RTD probes on all 3 jacks were reading about 28F high. I confirmed it was the Heatermeter by plugging the ThermoWorks Probe into the...

See my edits above about a blown SSR and advise on using 40 or 50A SSRs in the same form factor size. As always - ground and fuse helped maintain safety. Without those the failed closed / shorted SSR would have fed the short in the smoker that caused all the fuss. Fuses! Grounds! and secondarily...

Hi Bryan, and thanks for the compliment on the build. And we thank YOU with every smoke for all you've done and continue to do for us! The label makers and some basic masking and painting make it easy to get a good result. And you don't see the touch ups from heavy handed painting. The concept...

Some experiments. My main interest was how well the heat sink was doing. Running at 160 PIT and heating up to that. Ambient was about 85F and the heat sink was running about 15F or so above that. Not bad for a temp differential. Not bad for a high temp. Next I wanted to run the smoker at 225F...

First Run Pictures. I must say this is a hacked Little Chief. This was a gift from a neighbor and after a couple uses it died. The company said it ws 40 years old and that style heating element wasn't available. So I hacked in (from some web findings) a 1000 watt single burner from WallyWorld...

Let's Build it First I added some paint. Not strictly necessary but the box was hard anodized black. Which means in the sun it's going to be it's own heat source. We want to dissapate heat from the SSR in the box. We don't want to add to it. I thought of smoke and fire and chose red and...

Presenting my latest project and first for the HeaterMeter. The HeaterMeter Buddy. It is an SSR "Buddy" for electric smokers As with many HeaterMeter initiates - the HeaterMeter is a great can't-live-without item (like my first microwave 30 years ago). The issue is I have an electric smoker (a...

This is an informative post of an observed failure mode and the remediation that brought my heatermeter back. While changing parameters via webui my heatermeter wigged out. Solid white backlight display with no text. Reboot showed "No Pit Probe" and then quickliy solid white backlight display...

With everybody wanting these PIs to do everything it makes me wonder if the default kernel tunings are increasingly for performance the cost of power consumption. I.e. even "shifting the power management" into a higher performance range. The Linux scheduler - particularly in a performance mode...

Nothing wrong with discrete enough "freelancing" as we call it. If I'm out hiking and nobody can see anything but my back, and I'm off a bit anyway, then I and nobody should worry about it. Nature calls. Wife, Kids, Myself. Gotta go - gotta go! Just be discrete enough and nobody's looking at...