Help! First Cyber Q attempt - Fail !

GrillinSailor

Got my Cyber Q set up for my Big Green Egg and attempted to use it for the first time.

I paired it with my iPad rather than set it up in infrastructure mode to my router to keep things simple to start.  I was cooking two slabs of ribs for my in-laws and wife.  I had two problems:

1. when I went to install the door for the blower, it seemed a bit too short to slide in the track and kept slipping out.  It also didn't curve correctly, so that when I tried to slide the solid door across and over the  cyber Q piece it wouldn't go over as per instructions, so I slid it underneath and hoped I had an air tight seal.

2. I attached just the pit probe with out a food probe and set it for 350.  I clipped the alligator clip of the pit probe to the grate and let the probe wire out the side to the Cyber Q box.

I had set the pit temp for 350 and didn't set a food temp for any of the other probes since I wasn't going to use them on the ribs. I got a Pit Open error and couldn't get it to go off. I reset several times no joy.  I couldn't get the fan to even come on.

Does anyone know what stupid thing I did or didn't do to get this going right?

Thanks so much in advance!

Grillin'

TheShaytoon

Hi @GrillinSailor

You kinda have to bend the thing yourself...

this was a thread a couple of weeks ago that helped @Jeepster47 .  Check it out at 

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/comment/1638851/#Comment_1638851

What do you sail? 

bigalsworth

The blower adapter is made for different sized eggs so if it seemed to small maybe rotate it 90deg and then slide it in. The long metal clip should be verticle on the left side of the vent and the door slides over the other side.

not sure why the lid open is activated. Is the fire going? I think it works by stopping the fan when it sees a sharp temp drop so see what you may be doing to make it think that.

GrillinSailor

TheShaytoon,

I'll try that out.  I sail a 36ft Jeanneau out of the Eastport side of Annapolis.  That's almost every weekend, spring - summer - fall, so my egging is restricted to weekday nights alot of the year. 

Grillin'

Jeepster47

@GrillinSailor ... what size egg do you have?

GrillinSailor

I have a large egg in a table.

Jeepster47

GrillinSailor ... without the nest, you should be able to turn the adapter so that it's taller than it is wide and slide it in from the left side of the bottom vent.  Then slide the screen and solid door over the right side of the adapter.  You might have to push the adapter plate down a little to get the screen and solid door to slide over it ... or bend the adapter plate a little.

Since I have my egg in a nest, this is what @TheShaytoon helped me with:  Slide the screen closed, add the clip to the long side of the adapter (slide the clip to the left until it is even with the edge of the adapter), bend the right side of the adapter a little, install the adapter in the bottom of the guide rails and push the clip upwards solidly into the top of the guide rails, then slide the solid door over the adapter until it seats against the adapter tube.

If you want more detail, read down from the comment that TheShaytoon shared with you.

Good luck.

TheShaytoon

@GrillinSailor It sounds like the thermometer was not plugged into the the PIT connector on the CyberQ.  Also maybe the thermometer is faulty, try one of the other ones. 

I have an Olson30, Melges 24, and a Flying Scot....good to see some other sailors here.

GrillinSailor

TheShaytoon,

Sounds like you are a one design racer who races three one designs.  I'm a lazy cruiser sailing the bay, drinking sundowners and grilling for friends on the back rail.  The Magma rail grill is no Green Egg, but it doesn't do a bad job on Steaks, burgers and other hi temp grub.

TheShaytoon

@GrillinSailor The Olson is not longer a OD Racer, we use it to take friends out and Race-Cruise.  The other two we are pretty serious about.

I've been thinking about a grill on the Olson, but the water is down about 10 1/2 feet, and we can't put her in the water.