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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3360107" data-attributes="member: 5412">I'm not sure it would have caused a house fire. The "fire" which was electrical in nature started the pellets in the hopper to smoulder and smoke. I think the closed lid would have kept it smouldering and not a raging fire, but one never knows and the electrical fire stench was wafting near the back door and into the house. I'll probably not replace it with a Traeger controller, but one of the PID controllers mentioned earlier that will get it hotter. I have trouble getting it to 400 degrees and that's not hot enough for a good sear on a steak. When I saw it was at 450 degrees I knew there was a problem, and that's when all the meltdown started.</blockquote>