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Master built electric smoker tripping the circuit
Posted on 8/31/13 at 7:38 am
Posted on 8/31/13 at 7:38 am
Got a trimmed up beautiful USDA Prime 6 pound brisket that I rubbed last night, woke up and put on the smoker at 6 AM, got it going, went back to check on it 45 min later expecting to see and smell plenty of smoke and the damn thing had tripped the breaker, reset and tripped again, changed to an outlet on a different circuit and as soon as the heating element kicked on it tripped too. I am pissed, put the brisket in the oven and when I cool down I will go back and investigate and try to find the problem, any suggestions on what to look for?
I have used this smoker 5-6 times on the same outlet and has always been problem free
In before "should of used charcoal and you would not have this problem"
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Posted on 8/31/13 at 7:41 am to Tigerpaw123
That sucks... Regular breaker or a GFCI breaker? Possibly have a short in the unit or just pulling too many amps?
Posted on 8/31/13 at 7:49 am to wickowick
It is a GFCI, and so was the other outlet I tried second (but a different circuit) and both tripped, I have a very heavy duty extension cord (10 gauage) I will pull out and try it hooked up to a non GFCI outlet next, but I am thinking it might have a short in the heating element as I have used the previous mentioned outlet several times with the same smoker 
Posted on 8/31/13 at 7:51 am to Tigerpaw123
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but I am thinking it might have a short in the heating element as I have used the previous mentioned outlet several times with the same smoker
That is what is sounds like, you might need to go light the neighbor's...
Posted on 8/31/13 at 7:53 am to wickowick
Looks like we will have a baked/ steamed brisket this evening
Posted on 8/31/13 at 7:58 am to Tigerpaw123
It won't help you with this issue, but don't use an extension cord with your smoker. I've read that tends to be the cause of heating elements going out. I put an 8lb brisket on mine at midnight.
Posted on 8/31/13 at 8:14 am to Tigerpaw123
check your heating element, it may be grounded out.
Or check the connections going to it. If it blew two circuits, it's got a ground-fault issue.
Or check the connections going to it. If it blew two circuits, it's got a ground-fault issue.
Posted on 8/31/13 at 8:16 am to dbb
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It won't help you with this issue, but don't use an extension cord with your smoker.
depends on the cord, there are some with larger diameter wire than you find in your walls, those are fine. But if your heating element needs 5amps and it can only pull three, that's when you have issues.
Generally speaking it should work with an orange cord though. Make sure your ground is good.
But IMO, it sounds like he has metal touching the element. Same thing happens in oven, when the element touches the walls it won't work/ trips.
Posted on 8/31/13 at 8:32 am to Napoleon
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But IMO, it sounds like he has metal touching the element. Same thing happens in oven, when the element touches the walls it won't work/ trips.
Will do, and thanx
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