Fireboard 2

@RemE @Murphy's Law and @Timmy - How are you guys mounting your ambient probe on the sides of the grill near the Traeger stock probe? Are you drilling into the side to mount a bracket?

No, I just cut and bent a piece of this and then used the screws that mount the Traeger probe to the grill. It is what I had in the garage at the time!
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@RemE @Murphy's Law and @Timmy - How are you guys mounting your ambient probe on the sides of the grill near the Traeger stock probe? Are you drilling into the side to mount a bracket?
My Timberline's probe is clipped in place, no screws to use so I modified a Fireboard grate clip and screwed it into place next to the stock probe. I only use the fireboard to monitor long and low cooks.
 
Yes, target was 400 and the Traeger probe at the time read right at 400 or 401. The grill had been on for awhile so the temps were stable and not rising.

Not seen in this shot is another probe I had on the far left of the grill and it consistently recorded about 20 degrees higher than the center ambient probe.
When i got my 780 the set temp and Traeger grill temp were not even close. Traeger sent me a new rtd, it took a month to get here. It didnt fix the problem so i called CS and they sent a new controller. After install set temp and Traeger grill temp were within a few degrees of each other. But according to my thermpro tp-20 grill temp was low by as much as 35f degrees.So i got a Fireboard to monitor what the rtd was actually reading. So that is what i go by now. I turn the grill temp up or down and set it to the fireboard reading. The probe i set to the left of the grill is 8 degrees hotter than the right side by the rtd which is fine with me. After i figured all this out my cooks are way more consistent.
 
No, I just cut and bent a piece of this and then used the screws that mount the Traeger probe to the grill. It is what I had in the garage at the time!
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when you get a chance and some time, you might wanna change that out if that's 'galvanized' plumber's strap... nothing galvanized should be inside a smoker. I can't tell from the pic but I have some and it is galvanized.
 
Yup the std Fireboard grill probe is rated in the mid 500F range. Their RTD optional probe goes to 600+

Since our grills can go to 500F, and higher during an overshoot, I added an RTD for a bit of protection.

The Timberline's use a bi-metal thermocouple temp sensor for the controller that can take probably 1000F and has super fast response times.

When I plugged my RTD in and set that port for RTD, it was reading 30° off the Ambient Probe at room temp...
I had to go into the APP and adjust it +30 to read the same, then THAT PORT stays +30 for ever and can only be used for my RTD so I just stayed with my ambients for now, I never take my grill into the 400s anyway, I use my gasser for that.

Anyone else had to adjust their RTD to match real temp?? Did I just get a bad one, then again has anyone even checked?

RTD and STD(meaning 100K Thermistor) hanging side by side indoors or out, or both clipped next to each other in the grill... obviously they should both read the exact same
 
when you get a chance and some time, you might wanna change that out if that's 'galvanized' plumber's strap... nothing galvanized should be inside a smoker. I can't tell from the pic but I have some and it is galvanized.

I am not sure the grill would ever get hot enough to cause issue with the zinc??
 
I am not sure the grill would ever get hot enough to cause issue with the zinc??
Yeah I know you're right... I just wanted to say that so others know about galv
 
When I plugged my RTD in and set that port for RTD, it was reading 30° off the Ambient Probe at room temp...
I had to go into the APP and adjust it +30 to read the same, then THAT PORT stays +30 for ever and can only be used for my RTD so I just stayed with my ambients for now, I never take my grill into the 400s anyway, I use my gasser for that.

Anyone else had to adjust their RTD to match real temp?? Did I just get a bad one, then again has anyone even checked?

RTD and STD(meaning 100K Thermistor) hanging side by side indoors or out, or both clipped next to each other in the grill... obviously they should both read the exact same
Not seen that issue my RTD is very close to the grill at room temperature.
 
I only use the fireboard to monitor long and low cooks.

If my grill or grills get fired up, so does my Fireboard. 😁
 
Not seen that issue my RTD is very close to the grill at room temperature.

NO, I meant I plugged one RTD in one port and a Thermistor in another port, I set the RTD port to read RTD, both probes were just sitting inside at room temp and the RTD was reading 99°, so I had to go into the calibration of that probe and do a -30° for them to read room temp together.

It don't really matter cuz I now don't even use the RTD, the 2 regular ambient probes I have are good enough
 
NO, I meant I plugged one RTD in one port and a Thermistor in another port, I set the RTD port to read RTD, both probes were just sitting inside at room temp and the RTD was reading 99°, so I had to go into the calibration of that probe and do a -30° for them to read room temp together.

It don't really matter cuz I now don't even use the RTD, the 2 regular ambient probes I have are good enough
Ya I got what you said, my point is that my RTD wasn't looking way off. But now I will compare them all!
 
Ya I got what you said, my point is that my RTD wasn't looking way off. But now I will compare them all!

It may have just been me... and maybe I even got a bad RTD and should have called Fireboard
 
It may have just been me... and maybe I even got a bad RTD and should have called Fireboard
Call them anyway and ask them if it is in parameters to be that far off.
 
Call them anyway and ask them if it is in parameters to be that far off.

I'll give it a try again in a different port... if I get the same results then I'll call
 

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