New MES

[heubrewer]

After literally countless hours of use my 30”’MES Rev 2 “the bad one” gave up the ghost. I have been so impressed with the MES over the years that I got another 30” this time a MES 130B series with the integrated digital meat thermometer from QVC. I was even able to reuse my modified stand from my old MES. I added castors to it so I can roll it around. Plan on smoking something this weekend. Perhaps a brisket

 

[oldsmokerdude]

Congrats on the new smoker. Waiting on the pics of your first smoke.

 

[tallbm]

After literally countless hours of use my 30”’MES Rev 2 “the bad one” gave up the ghost. I have been so impressed with the MES over the years that I got another 30” this time a MES 130B series with the integrated digital meat thermometer from QVC. I was even able to reuse my modified stand from my old MES. I added castors to it so I can roll it around. Plan on smoking something this weekend. Perhaps a brisket

Nice!
You don't happen to have the old one laying around do u?
I'd bet money a simple rewire and a PID controller would have it running better than it ever did all those years you used it in the past :)

 

[heubrewer]

The breaker at my house tripped and I saw the connector to the heating element was melted. It was heavily corroded,

I did not realize how much grease accumulated back by the heating element

I turned on the unit so it would “heat” but got 0 voltage drop between the wires. So I figured it was about that time for a replacement

 

[smokerjim]

congrats on the new smoker, I have a mes 30 now for a couple years, I have no complaints about them, you could always save your old one for cold smokes

 

[tallbm]

The breaker at my house tripped and I saw the connector to the heating element was melted. It was heavily corroded,

I did not realize how much grease accumulated back by the heating element

I turned on the unit so it would “heat” but got 0 voltage drop between the wires. So I figured it was about that time for a replacement

I'm highly confident that if you wanted to work on it you could get the old one back up and running by replacing the connectors with stainless steel hi-temp ones... provided the element isn't dead.

The top 2 failure points of an MES are the controller, and crappy corroding wire connectors. The connectors are a simple fix :)