Pk 100 blew up
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Dwight Williams thats all I can think of I had just put in the wood and the smoke was going good same as always… turned to walk away and boooom
Phantom , I bought a Pit Boss Platinum Brunswick pellet smoker this January so far I am loving it. Doing boston butts today. Pellets are really dry and don’t think that will happen again. Wood chips and saw dust do put off a gas. It was popular during WWII to heat wood and run trucks off the gases.
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Phantom , I bought a Pit Boss Platinum Brunswick pellet smoker this January so far I am loving it. Doing boston butts today. Pellets are really dry and don’t think that will happen again. Wood chips and saw dust do put off a gas. It was popular during WWII to heat wood and run trucks off the gases.
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The problem may be they have too much moisture in them. Dry wood doesn’t give off as much gasses or smoke.
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Phantom You were using dust and not pellets? If you bought this from us please send those images and an explanation to cs@waltonsinc.com I am going to guess that their was something with the wood source but I have added saoked wood chips all the time to ours. Vents shouldn’t have made enough of a difference. If you didnt buy this from Waltons you will want to contact whoever you bought it from ASAP.
On a personal note thank god you are okay. That must have been incredibly scary!
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I had an electric smoker do it twice. I was using Whiskey barrel chipps both times. I figured gas build up from the wood chips.
Dwight Williams alcohol will soak into the wood and there in lies a problem with heat applied to the wood
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Oh yeah!
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Dwight Williams thats all I can think of I had just put in the wood and the smoke was going good same as always… turned to walk away and boooom
Phantom yes you want your sawdust damp so its not so volatile. Also you dont want your bottom vent closed. Bottom and top should be partially open while smoking. Needs circulation and now obviously pressure release. However, if you literally just put a fresh pan of dust on and closed the door it should not have reacted that quickly. Im assuming you had the smoker outside when this happened not inside like the photo appears. And again, im assuming you used strictly saw dust and not pellets.
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Using a pan of chips or sawdust seems like it should be a pretty simple way to generate smoke, but there can be some inconsistency in the burn rate. Back when I was doing it that way, I noticed a lot of variation in the burn rate of different types of wood under different smoking conditions, although I never had an explosion.
If you get too much sawdust burning I can see where you could get a lot of volatile vapors building up in the box. I agree with twilliams, it would be best to wet down the chips or sawdust to control the burn rate. -
Phantom Just so this doesn’t get lost, if you did purchase from us please contact customer service at 800-835-2832 as soon as you are able to. You could also email them at cs@waltonsinc.com
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Phantom Just so this doesn’t get lost, if you did purchase from us please contact customer service at 800-835-2832 as soon as you are able to. You could also email them at cs@waltonsinc.com
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steve4102 damp, says it right in the instructions and recipe books
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Phantom Okay, they still should take care of you, they might want you to go directly to PK though. If you get any update from PK on what caused this please update this thread, we have a decent amount of users with the PK100 and I feel like this is something they should all know about. Tagging that group in this post at least will alert them to it but honestly, I am assuming everyone has looked at this. It would be hard to scroll past the title of this post if you own one!
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Contact Pro Smoker direct at: info@pro-smoker.com
While pressure can build up in the unit when using pellets or chips, it’s very uncommon for this to occur using sawdust (dry or wet). Additional information is needed as there are zero instances of this happening with sawdust. -
Contact Pro Smoker direct at: info@pro-smoker.com
While pressure can build up in the unit when using pellets or chips, it’s very uncommon for this to occur using sawdust (dry or wet). Additional information is needed as there are zero instances of this happening with sawdust. -
I wonder if what you experienced is similar to a dust explosion https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/OSHAcombustibledust.html
Perhaps with dry dust and bottom vent closed it created the environment for this. I’m no engineer or safety expert but the hazard you experienced sounds similar.
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steve4102 You sent them an email to the info@pro-smoker.com address above and they didn’t respond to that? You could tag the group again if you want them to see it here, they seem to have created an account for this topic.
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