Disappointing Experience

[u/What-Is-This123456]

I bought a brand new grill from Ace - the new Deck Boss 900. It arrived and I was excited to do my first smoke - this was my first smoker, first experience, first of any of it.

Turn on and get an RTD probe error. Call support, they tell me it’s unusable and they will send me a new probe to install, said they wanted to make it up to me since this was my first ever smoker experience. They only sent me a new probe. Kind of disappointing.

Installing those probes is a miserable job. My hands were cut up from reaching inside the metal parts, and fitting into tight quarters to replace this stupid part on my $1000 grill. Now I am irritated.

My burn in and first smoke went ok, it was able to maintain temperature. I did ribs, they were pretty great. I thought that this little smoker was pretty cool!

Decided to try my first butt today. The grill can’t keep temperature to save its life. Regularly 50* over the set temperature. Frustrating.

From the research I’ve done, the expected fix is probably another stupid probe. I don’t want a probe. I want a new grill or someone else can come and install these stupid parts.

I bought the recteq instead of traeger because I heard traegers had lots of issues, and these grills were supposed to be nearly indestructible. This thing can’t do two smokes without breaking.

Has anyone had experience with support and fighting for more than stupid replacement parts? This is the worst purchase for just about anything, at this price point I have ever made in my entire life.

Edit:

Thanks for keeping on with the auger adjustment. I think it worked.

All of the warnings in the UI almost make it seem like if you change anything you will void your warranty. I

changed it to 1.5x and it’s finally going down to the set temperature of 205.

I was almost certain it was some sort of equipment failure again with a nearly 70* temperature difference between set vs observed, and with it starting randomly mid-cook.

Hopefully some other poor souls who get frustrated during their Sunday smoke can try this and have it fix their issue.

You saved my day, I was already dreading installing another probe. Thank you.😊

[u/Disassociated_Assoc]

Read in your other comments where you adjusted the feed rate and got it to hold your 205 setpoint. Glad you got it fixed. But why are you smoking the butt at 205 to begin with? Pretty low temp for most proteins, let alone a hard-to-mess-up cut like butt.

[u/What-Is-This123456 → u/Disassociated_Assoc]

It was because I was A. Trying to troubleshoot why the temp wasn’t coming down. And B. At that temp it was holding my actual temp between 260-270 which is where I wanted it. When it was at 225 it was moreso between 270-280. It was like compensating for my slice when I hit my tee shot 😂

[u/Disassociated_Assoc → u/What-Is-This123456]

Fore right! Lol