Hi Ed,
Thanks for your questions.
First, the Savannah Stoker was
not designed to replace the controllers on the Yoder, MAC, Woodmaster, Memphic, Fast Eddy, and several others. The respective manufactures have a quality product with a well designed controller. The Savannah Stoker was originally designed to overcome the short comings of the stock controller on Traeger Wood Pellet Grills.
Traeger owners quickly learn the stock controller is the achilies heel of their grill: It has large temp swings (25+), no cool down cycle, and limited cooking temperatures: Smoke, 180, 225, 250, 275, 300, 325, 350, 375 and high (450).
To some the stock controller meets their needs, but for others better temperature control was needed. If was from this need that drove the design of the Savannah Stoker.
So what is the Savannah Stoker II?
It is a PID based artificial intelligent temperature controller that allows you to control your wood pellet grill with “simplicity but infinite control”.
Some of the feaures of the Savannah Stoker II:
• Set the desired cooking/smoking temperature from 160°- 550°F or the max temperature your grill can reach in 1° increments.
• Typical temperature swings are 5-10°F when cooking above 250°F and 10-15°F when smoking below 225°F.
• Movable Temperature Sensor. Know what the grate level cooking temperature is; place the sensor there.
• Optional hardwired permanent installed temperature sensor.
• Grill cool-down cycle. The fan runs for 20-25 minutes after the grill is turned off to cool the grill down.
• 2 Speed Fan selectable by the user. Low for Smoking; High for cooking.
• Auger Bypass. Press a button and the auger runs 100% to get to grilling temperatures faster.
• All of the operational parameters can be changed by the end user.
• Autotune function. The controller will determine the most optium P,I,D, parameter settings for your grill.
Through the efforts of many the Savannah Stoker has been installed/programmed to operate almost any pellet grill that uses the Traeger or Ortech Controller.
This included:
Traeger Wood Pellet Grills: Texas, Lil’ Tex, Lil’ Tex Elite, Select, BBQ Deluxe 100, XL, BBQ 100, BBQ 124, BBQ 125/126, COM 190/200 (with an option relay). Maybe compatible with other Traeger models; will not fit in the Traeger Junior or the PTG with out modifications.
All models of the Blaz’n Grills Works Wood Pellet Grills, Royall Wood Pellet Grills (except the tailgater), Smoke Daddy Pellet Pro, Pro Smoker ‘n Roaster BBQ 100, Dreamwerk Smokers.
One user has adapted the Savannah Stoker to control their Yoder.
Some of our users like myself own the STOKER® Power Draft System from Rocks Bar-B-Que. (Info on the features of the Stoker can be found here
https://www.rocksbarbque.com/ .) The Stoker is an Automatic temperature control device for stick burners and charcoal smokers. Though many have tried, the Stoker was never adapted to operate a pellet grill.... until the Savannah Stoker come out. With an optional interface cable the STOKER® Power Draft System can control some of the abovementioned wood pellet grills.
With the Stoker connected the user gains wireless control including remote temperature control and monitoring from a computer or Smartphone and graphing of the cook with StokerLog
1 running on a PC. There are several phones apps available including StokeMaster and BBQ Monitor
2Thanks again for your questions.
Billy
1StokerLog is a PC Application written by Amir Majidimehr that can be used as an alternate to the STOKER’s web browser interface. StokerLog adds many features: Learns the characteristics of your barbecue; Chart and save your cook data; Set alarms on your computer; Ramp temperatures up/down by time or food temperature; and more. The author posts on the Virtual Weber Bulletin Board
http://tvwbb.com in the Automatic Temperature Control Systems area. Discussion and download information is found there.
2StokeMaster and BBQ Monitor are iPhone Apps used to monitor and make changes to the STOKER.