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  1. mechanic

    Question I need help with...

    A Yoder draws approximately 260 watts at startup for about 5 minutes during startup and then between 30 and 50 watts for the duration of the cook.  You will have to figure your run times based on the battery type, size and reserve rating.
  2. mechanic

    Yoder Pellet smoker

    I am a multiple Yoder smoker owner.  I have to congratulate you as the one, and the only, person that I have every heard of, burning the pellet hopper, not once, but twice, in their Yoder cooker.  In all the forums, at all the competitions I have been to, and out of the thousands of Yoder pellet...
  3. mechanic

    Yoder Pellet smoker

    After reading your statement in your recent review of the Yoder YS480, I can understand completely why the cooker burned...maintenance is a must for any pellet cooker...I would say this was a self-inflicted issue.
  4. mechanic

    Yoder 640 damper

    If you are foiling the diffuser plate, make sure that you don't have an excess of foil on the edges, especially the right side edge, and make sure that the foil is absolutely up tight against the bottom of the plate and not away from the plate where it will cause turbulance in the air flow...
  5. mechanic

    newbie needs help picking a smoker

    Yoder, the only way to go!
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