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.😊

I went to Las Vegas this past weekend and I took off my Apple Watch for the whole trip and wore my submariner/datejust. It was awesome to be unplugged from it all. I want to start wearing nice time pieces everywhere, and I want to get one that can be an easy daily that won’t draw a ton of attention but also I really enjoy. I have always wanted a chronograph, and I’d get an omega but I don’t want to wind. I found myself at an iwc boutique a few weeks ago and really liked their pilot chronos, at first I was drawn towards the amg watches but I despise the branding, unfortunately. The top gun chrono doesn’t haven anything on the case back, and it pretty much meets all of my requirements. A bit on the steeper side, but I might pull the trigger? Should I go second hand? I bought my sub secondhand and my datejust was an heirloom. I’ve never bought a watch new. Plus how easy is it to get one of these at the shop?

I’m not sure if this is allowed, but does anyone have a Billy bookcase display up that they would be willing to share? (Might go buy one next week if it’s a good fit!)