Failed during my time of need

[Jon M G]

Just want to thank everyone here - especially the designers.

I had a party yesterday and ended up having to go anolog on my Weber kettle to smoke a pork shoulder and a duck when my heatermeter wouldn't turn on.

After a year of using the heatermeter this was not very fun and the food definitely suffered. I'm sure my ****ty soldering is to blame.

Anyone have suggestions on what it could be? The pi powers up and creates a server but when I go to the server and try to log in it says there is a hardware issue.

Yellow light blinks once when plug in but no screen or LEDs after that.

 

[Joel Peterson]

Post some high resolution pictures of the front and back of your board and someone might be able to help. Sorry for your meat loss

 

[Tony L-Iowa]

Did you short your Fan control wires together from overheating? I had my HeaterMeter controlling my electric smoker via solid state relay and I melted the control wires causing a short that prevented the HM from powering up. Unplugging the CAT5 cable allowed me to boot it and told me I had problems with the control wiring. Mine failed about 4 hours into my second smoke and it was 100% because of the heat of where I mounted my stuff.