Cook temp problems

JMCXL

Friday night into Saturday I had issues holding temp on a LS. I got to 250 and hooked up my BBQ Guru CyberQ to assist with temp control. Temp was having trouble holding and slowly dropped. After cooking for about 3 hrs a storm knocked out power and ended my controlled cook. I went old school and still had difficulty. It settled into about 160 and didn’t want to budge.

After reviewing my troubles I thought about what was the problem. I remembered I had a similar problem and what I did similar. As we know it’s all about air flow. I realized in my hope for a long cook I have been over filling the XL Egg ( I think).  Please look at the photo and give me you option.

The egg was fully cleaned and put back together (correctly). The lump was RW.  In the morning I blasted with a heat gun, opened the vents and final got her to a good temp.
 
 Thanks for looking

onedbguru

for LS, I fill it to about the same line.  I will start it by using ~1/2 chimney to red hot, dump it in the middle, then fill it about the same line adding smoking chunks/chips as required. I only do it "old school" (no electric gizmos), just make sure I have the vents open sufficiently to keep it going without it getting > 275. 

JMCXL

onedbguru said:

for LS, I fill it to about the same line.  I will start it by using ~1/2 chimney to red hot, dump it in the middle, then fill it about the same line adding smoking chunks/chips as required. I only do it "old school" (no electric gizmos), just make sure I have the vents open sufficiently to keep it going without it getting > 275. 

Ok, maybe I need to rethink the issue

marysvilleksegghead

Do you have a wiggle stick?  
https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/597724/wiggle-stick

JMCXL

marysvilleksegghead said:

Do you have a wiggle stick?  

No, do tell more...

marysvilleksegghead

marysvilleksegghead said:

Do you have a wiggle stick?  

see edited post above . . . sorry still learning on this new software for this site