Larry Naylor
TVWBB Member
Recently I had bought a new grill and was looking for some way to monitor it during a 10 to 12 hour smoke. I found the HeaterMeter on line and did a lot of research on it a few emails and i had a pretty red case and a bunch of parts. I think you can get it pre assembled but i like building things. The kit is very well thought out with great instructions. Took me about 2 evenings to assemble the unit. THis is not a hard kit to assemble but be advised you will have to learn how to solder but there is a lot of online instructions, and it's not really hard . With a little practice its not overly taxing of ones ability. The only problem i had is having gray hair made my eyes somewhat strained by the small parts and solder points. But its not a big problem. Follow the instructions , take your time ,and you will have a hand built HeaterMeter. I then had to find some way yo have a blower for it and along comes RD3 it uses a fan you can get from Bryan. It's 3d printed. A first for me. The fan pops into it and it uses a cheap servo . You will have to figure out a way to attach it to your grill.Now i should state this project was not without problems. The first was finding servos for this , they can be somewhat of a crap shoot But if you look around you can find them. Then it will require some thinking to find a way to mont to your grill Ralph can help with this. Now one problem i had was one of the food probes measured way off temp wise, but Ralph worked on line with me and Bryan worked with me and we managed to troubleshoot and correct the problem. Was a glitch in the eeprom but These 2 guys guided me through the mumbo jumbo that is computer language. This stuff was way over my head. Now the only trouble i'm having is should a do a pork butt or ribs saturday; Once again Thank you Bryan and Ralph for both a great product and you help