Recent content by passedpawn

They are rolling in FL, so I guess if it sells... ... but will it play in Peoria

I think a blackstone is a great "augment" to a pellet pooper. I kinda do that with my kettle now. I love cooking certain things (burgs, steaks) on a griddle. This Traeger Timrberline offering from Traeger is interesting - it's on my radar. Cost... well yea. It's kinda sweet. Something to...

IMO they are not good for cooking hot dogs. If you smoking them after you've stuffed homemade hot dogs, well yes, it's perfect for that.

haha, I guess making them look cool is more important than mapping them to their actual emission wavelengths. They do look cool - what I don't need is to even THINK about another hobby right now, geez.

Yea, that is the problem with gas, it relies on flame. Stick burners are just the opposite, we avoid the flame at all cost. Turns out, for most cooking, flame getting near the food is bad. For this reason I abandoned the gas a long time ago. It is convenient though. If you want the best of...

If you still have the caps, do a continuity test on them. Zero on a capacitance meter means it's shorted. On the other hand, if it read 0L, that means overload, which means infinite capacitance, which means OPEN ckt, which is what I would have expected. A cap that fails open will result in a...

Ah, I see! Thanks for that explanation. If you have a narrow band filter for Ha in the second photo, I would think there would be more red? Ha is solid in the middle of the red spectrum. I guess not much emission of Ha then? Green is S2 and blue is O3?

Hmmm, I've smoked cheese and I've made lots of wine with oak chips. I feel like I have missed an opportunity here! Next time I'm re-using those chips. Thanks.

I've got a Weber kettle and a Traeger pellet pooper. I find this is a great combo. No way I would try to sear anything on that Traeger. It's a field horse for tilling soil, not a race horse on the quarter mile track. It's not a great smoker... not enough smoke to really do BBQ justice...

Most of the lines I'm thinking of come from Pink Floyd :)

@mac_1103, is your AC disconnect fused? Typically there is a removable plastic panel inside that hides the fuses.

OP said he tested the caps and at least one read zero F, which means it was shorted. If replacing that did not get the motor (compressor) running, then the bad cap likely dominoed into a compressor failure. I guess we'll know after Tuesday.

Does that mean no filters, or no post/processing of colors, or both?

That's good info!

I meant, does the fan spin when commanded electrically but the compressor does not run?