Arduino Smoker Temperature Controller

The flame boss 400 offers variable speed which helps to control temperatures in rough conditions think rain snow wind as well as any quirks or specific characteristics of your cooking unit.

Arduino smoker temperature controller.

With the charcoal hot and the lid on there are two ways to control temperature. A thermocouple sensor stuck through. Pork butt smoking cooking. The program has these features.

It continuously monitors and pid controls the process until the desired internal meat temperature is reached. The universal flame boss supports most steel smokers like the weber smokey mountain pit barrel cooker and weber kettle. The controller set temperature was 255 f. You just use the relay to run a fan and motorized damper instead of the heating element.

Here s a short video of the first time running my temperature controller i built for my smokers. Each segment has its own ramp rate target temperature and hold time. Unlimited firing schedules stored on a microsd card. The final version of the controller program.

The flame boss controller learns your smoker so the temperature control is supposed to get better over time. Wanted to get into glass fusing and decided to build my own digital controller based on a arduino uno. Flame boss sells two different models so you need to be careful which one you buy. If you love data insights into how your smoker performs the flame boss 400 might just be your dream smoker controller.

This particular smoker is electric but the controller will work on charcoal fired ones too. Control up to 3 zones. Each schedule can have up to 20 segments. It then stops the cycle and sends a message that dinner is ready.

Venting to let hot air out and blowing air on the coals to make them hotter.