Oh man this is a disaster. I was going to attempt the smoke anyway using my maverick air probe to keep the temperature. It was working great for about the first hour and now it's shut down and won't restart. When I try to plug it in most of the time nothing happens, but sometimes it rapidly beeps before nothing happens.
I haven't even got enough smoke on these butts to put them in the oven to salvage them. It's pretty cold outside and I'd read that could effect the display boards (Though I was obviously hoping that since it made it up to temperature that it wouldn't be an issue), so I have a heating pad on it right now to try to ressurect the smoker for at least the next couple of hours.
Why couldn't this part have arrived in time!
Edited:
Checked the connections in the heating element compartment and they're solid. Now the display is behaving. I set the temp, set the time, and then it turns off when the heating element is supposed to kick in. I hear an audible click, which I assume is some sort of relay. So if this part I'm being sent is different than the ones I replaced before it might fix my issue. However, I'm putting it in the day I get it and I'm immediately attempting a smoke to see how it goes. If it doesn't co-operate I'll be asking them to send me a new smoker, hopefully a gen 1 if they have it.
Edit 2:
And if anyone is wondering, I don't think they really got enough smoke (an hour, 2 hours generously), but I have the butts in the oven so we'll at least have something to eat for halftime dinner.