tinspark wrote:I have two combustion air inlets as well.. I made a square 2"x2" blast gate for my home grown gravity feed unit when I built the thing, which worked great for a few cooks before I started using a flameboss controller, which I purchased while I built my GF.
I keep the blast gate closed all of the time and am spoiled with the wifi fan controller with the smartphone app. I figured if the fan or controller took a dump in the middle of a cook, I would have redundancy and may be able to save the cook by opening up the slide gate a bit and plugging the 3/4" ips fan inlet. The hottest I ever attempted to get my GF was 350 deg. F, but that was just to cure it before teh first cook.
I have been gettin' and itch to build a "super mini", which would only have two shelves, just enough for a few briskets, or a few racks of ribs. A buddy will fund it if I build two, he gets one and I get the other one, but the Mrs. has been putting the kibosh on any more smokers for a minute.. I have a lot of irons on the fire right now......So she thinks!!! Maybe sneak em in under teh radar...lol!!
Your build looks good.. Nice work!!