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SMOKER OVEN COLD WEATHER OPERATIONS
When temperatures drop below freezing there are issues that may develop. Listed below are
some of those issues and ways to correct or reduce the effects of the problem.
1. Cold weather thickens the gearbox oil and at times it will cause the circuit breaker on
the control panel to trip. There are several things that can be done during these cold
weather conditions.
a. A preventative measure would be to keep rotisserie system rotating
with thermostat at the lowest temperature setting.
b: If the circuit breaker has already tripped, you may be able to warm the
gear box and oil up by letting the burner come on at the highest temp setting.
Continue to warm the oven for 45-60 min and reset the panel circuit breaker
by pushing in the center button on breaker.
Warning:
Allowing the panel circuit breaker to continually trip will eventually weaken
the breaker so that it will trip at a level below the designed specification.
2. Grease in oven drain solidifies in cold weather. Listed below are things that can be
done to reduce, or correct the effects of this problem.
a. Drain the oven after every cooking to purge the drainpipe of liquids before
they solidify. In extreme cold weather conditions customers have had
success wrapping the drainpipe with electric heat tape and insulating heat
tape and pipe.
3. LED Displays an error 7
a. Ovens with digital controllers are effected by cold weather particularly
when the oven is outside or when it a through the wall installation. This
error typically only happens when the oven has not been used for a significant
duration of time that allowed the oven to become extremely cold usually
temperatures below 32F. The following action will generally clear the error
7 code
b. Hold a cloth under warm water and wring water out, hold warm rag against
top of thermocouple on the inside of oven for about 20-30 seconds. Remove
rag and close door and start oven