NateSebold
TVWBB Member
So yeah the title says the problem. But I mainly run the RD3 and have no problems with it. Last night I had to run it without the RD3 and so I used a micro damper and the on board probe. About a half an hour into my smoke the thermocouple started jumping all over the place. At first I thought it was that I had a bad probe. So I swapped out the probe after doing so I noticed that my main probe had some issues at the plug.. it looked like perhaps the leads had been frayed so I stripped the wires and redid the the plug. I put it back in my smoker and fine for 30 minutes or so and then it just went dead. I finished my smoke by disabling the thermocouple probe and using one of the other 3 probe slots no problem.
So this morning I tried to check it out again and the on board thermocouple is still dead no reading on either of my two process. But I did hook up the RD3 and put the probes in and they both looked fine and registered fine.
So at this point I suspect a couple of things.
Something is wrong with my main thermocouple probe. As it stopped working last night and worked this morning on the RD3.
Something is wrong with my main board thermocouple port as it has completely died and the RD3 cross spliced in works fine.
Any testing or ideas or other thoughts?
Thanks beforehand to the great community here!
So this morning I tried to check it out again and the on board thermocouple is still dead no reading on either of my two process. But I did hook up the RD3 and put the probes in and they both looked fine and registered fine.
So at this point I suspect a couple of things.
Something is wrong with my main thermocouple probe. As it stopped working last night and worked this morning on the RD3.
Something is wrong with my main board thermocouple port as it has completely died and the RD3 cross spliced in works fine.
Any testing or ideas or other thoughts?
Thanks beforehand to the great community here!