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Go with the I-pilot , mine works great.

I have yet to see one on the east side , on the west side very few times do I drive from Willard past Samson with out seeing them.....

Nice job !!!! I miss it.....

Wait to long to charge?

Thanks for all the info guys , still have not pulled the rigger. pvelyk what a ton of info on that site . thanks

Looking at getting a new and better than I have now smoker. The Bradley sounds like what I may want but I have been using my own wood for years now. It looks like with this I will have to buy it but if it's worth that extra cost I'll go for it...... have just been doing fish and whole chicken in the old smoker because I had no way to control temp....... I make my own deer kielbasa and sausage and have a few other recipes I would like to try with this unit because of the good temp. control................... So anyone have one.... good , bad...... or another brand that is better .... Thanks

39* water is the key. got this from: http://www.alcademics.com/2012/01/how-water-freezes.html How Water Freezes This post is about how a lake freezes, but it should be more or less the same for how an insulated container freezes in a freezer. The information is from the excellent book, Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana Gosnell. Turnover As temperatures lower, the water in a lake "turns over." The top layer of water is heated by the sun during the day and is therefore warmer and lighter than the layers below it. At night without the sun, the cool air above the lake cools the top layer of water, which makes it denser than the layers beneath it. The top layer of water sinks. The new top layer gets colder until it too sinks. This is repeated until the top part of the water column reaches the same cool temperature. This temperature is not the freezing temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, but 39 degrees. That's the temperature at which water is at its densest and heaviest. This also means that water contracts at this temperature and takes up the least space. Latent Heat of Fusion After the lake has reached 39 degrees throughout the top part of the water column, as the cold air above it sinks to a lower temperature than the water, the water cools off to below 39 degrees. Now, however, the water getting colder makes it lighter than the 39 degree water below it, so the water no longer turns over. It stays on top and continues to cool until freezing. For water at 32 degrees to convert to ice at 32 degrees, a lot of energy must be given up. Normally it takes 1 calorie of energy to change the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius, but when water is changing phases to ice, it must give up nearly nearly 80 calories of energy to change phase without changing temperature at all. Sometimes as the water is giving up the 'latent heat' to change phases, little wisps of fog are visible above the water's surface.

Merry Christmas everyone......

They do it alot, look for an area without any boats and drop down crazy close to the lake and do there thing. I have some pic I took I'll see if I can find them.

Sounds like transducer , or transducer setting. Ive had a number of units do that over the years. With HmmingBird only it was setings and worst case transducer getting ready to fail.My older Raymerines did it and so times a false bottom reading. That will drive you crazy. If you are running more stuff in the water , two depthfinders or X4 that has caused it for me at times also.

I read it All Bob.

I hear ya Les , LOL...... they dont have worry much about me......Andys son got there #

Happy Birthday Joe

Thanks Glen , should get that stuff in the mail for you before that....

Old camp was sold , getting ready to shut new camp down till April. See you all next spring.