Hi everybody.
I wanted to post here and see if there is anyone with a suggestion to help me with my only real problem with my Heatermeter.
When I lift the lid to baste or turn my meat, the lid open setting triggers and shuts the fan and damper down as it is supposed to.
When I place the lid on again, because of the 120 second setting in the default it means that my fire is smothered for a period.
I know I can cancel the duration with a button push and I usually do that, but then the Rotodamper comes back on at 100% and the temperature continues to drop for some time.
I believe the fan blowing at 100% is actually killing my fire.
Eventually the fire does recover but it takes quite a long time... maybe 30 to 50 Minutes.
I have been doing some experiments with this and I'm currently running with my Fan output Max set to 50%.
That seems to have helped.
I have tried at 30 but that seemed to be making the fire too slow to respond during normal cooking.
My gut feeling is that what I need is to be able to ramp up my fan speed slowly after a lid open event.
I was talking privately to John Bostwick about this and he thought that the solution may be to use an alarm script to do what I want.
IF that is the solution, it would need to be done so that I could try different numbers, eg: first minute after lid open event Fan speed 10%, second minute fan speed 30%, 3rd minute 40%. (Damper set to 100% open) with those numbers able to be changed if they don't work.
I believe I would need to experiment with both the percentages and the durations.
I'm not even sure if this is the solution.
I have searched in this forum and I don't see any evidence of anyone else having the same problem, so perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree completely.
The next issue is ... IF there is a chance that I'm right, I have no knowledge of writing scripts, so I'm wondering if there is someone who would be willing to write the script for me to do what I hope will solve my problem?
I'd be over the moon for someone to reply and say "No, the solution is simply this..."
Frankly that's my other thought... that there is something I'm missing... because I don't see anyone else having this problem.
Thanks for reading.
Cheers,
Paul.
I wanted to post here and see if there is anyone with a suggestion to help me with my only real problem with my Heatermeter.
When I lift the lid to baste or turn my meat, the lid open setting triggers and shuts the fan and damper down as it is supposed to.
When I place the lid on again, because of the 120 second setting in the default it means that my fire is smothered for a period.
I know I can cancel the duration with a button push and I usually do that, but then the Rotodamper comes back on at 100% and the temperature continues to drop for some time.
I believe the fan blowing at 100% is actually killing my fire.
Eventually the fire does recover but it takes quite a long time... maybe 30 to 50 Minutes.
I have been doing some experiments with this and I'm currently running with my Fan output Max set to 50%.
That seems to have helped.
I have tried at 30 but that seemed to be making the fire too slow to respond during normal cooking.
My gut feeling is that what I need is to be able to ramp up my fan speed slowly after a lid open event.
I was talking privately to John Bostwick about this and he thought that the solution may be to use an alarm script to do what I want.
IF that is the solution, it would need to be done so that I could try different numbers, eg: first minute after lid open event Fan speed 10%, second minute fan speed 30%, 3rd minute 40%. (Damper set to 100% open) with those numbers able to be changed if they don't work.
I believe I would need to experiment with both the percentages and the durations.
I'm not even sure if this is the solution.
I have searched in this forum and I don't see any evidence of anyone else having the same problem, so perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree completely.
The next issue is ... IF there is a chance that I'm right, I have no knowledge of writing scripts, so I'm wondering if there is someone who would be willing to write the script for me to do what I hope will solve my problem?
I'd be over the moon for someone to reply and say "No, the solution is simply this..."
Frankly that's my other thought... that there is something I'm missing... because I don't see anyone else having this problem.
Thanks for reading.
Cheers,
Paul.
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