BBQ GURU ProCom 4 WIRELESS USER GUIDE Version 2.4
1. BBQ GURU ProCom 4 Wireless Features ............................................................................................. 2
2. INSTALLATION .................................................................................................................................... 2
3. KEYS ......................................................................................................................................................... 2
4. Adjusting LCD Contrast.......................................................................................................................... 2
5. Powering Up.............................................................................................................................................. 2
6. STANDARD USER MENU ..................................................................................................................... 3
6.1. Main Screen Selection ........................................................................................................................ 3
6.1.1. Standard Main Screen................................................................................................................. 3
6.1.2. Setpoint Main Screen.................................................................................................................. 3
6.1.3. Shot Gun Fred’s Main Screen..................................................................................................... 3
6.1.4. Temperature Display Messages .................................................................................................. 3
6.2. Aux Screen ......................................................................................................................................... 4
6.3. Pit Setpoint Screen.............................................................................................................................. 4
6.4. Meat Setpoint Screen.......................................................................................................................... 4
6.5. Timer Screen....................................................................................................................................... 4
6.6. Timeout Action Screen....................................................................................................................... 4
6.7. Alarm Screen ...................................................................................................................................... 5
6.8. Ramp On/Off Screen .......................................................................................................................... 5
6.9. Battery power screen .......................................................................................................................... 5
7. SUPER USER MENU .............................................................................................................................. 5
7.1. Fan % Screen ...................................................................................................................................... 5
7.2. Proportional Band Screen ................................................................................................................... 5
7.3. Offset Screen ...................................................................................................................................... 5
7.4. Ramp Offset Screen............................................................................................................................ 6
7.5. Deviation Alarm Screen...................................................................................................................... 6
7.6. Cycle Time Screen.............................................................................................................................. 6
7.7. Temperature Units Screen .................................................................................................................. 6
7.8. Reset All Screen ................................................................................................................................. 6
8. ALARMS................................................................................................................................................... 7
8.1. Meat Done Alarm ............................................................................................................................... 7
8.2. Pit Temp High..................................................................................................................................... 7
8.3. Pit Temp Low ..................................................................................................................................... 7
8.4. Timeout No Action............................................................................................................................. 7
8.5. Timeout Alarm.................................................................................................................................... 7
8.6. Timeout Shutdown.............................................................................................................................. 7
8.7. Meat Temp Error ................................................................................................................................ 8
8.8. Pit Temp Error.................................................................................................................................... 8
8.9. Meat Temp Unknown......................................................................................................................... 8
8.10. Handheld Pendant Battery Low........................................................................................................ 8
8.11. Controller Base Station Battery Low................................................................................................ 8
9. Zero and Span CALIBRATION ............................................................................................................. 8
9.1. Zero Adjust Screen ............................................................................................................................. 8
9.2. Span Adjust Screen............................................................................................................................. 9
10. CONTROLLER INDICATORS ........................................................................................................... 9
11. CONTROLLER BASE STATION IN MONITOR MODE................................................................ 9
12. CONTROLLER CONNECTIONS ....................................................................................................... 9
13. DEFINITION OF TERMS .................................................................................................................... 9
14. FCC INSTRUCTIONS TO THE USER............................................................................................. 10
15. SPECIFICATIONS .............................................................................................................................. 10
16. CONTACT INFORMATION ............................................................................................................. 11
1.BBQ GURU ProCom 4 Wireless Features
• Super compact wireless control pendant with up to 600 feet line of sight range
from your pit
• Allows complete remote control and monitoring of your pit
• Digital alphanumeric 8 character x 2 line LCD display with backlight
• Audible alarm sounds on over/under temp, meat done, timeout and many other
conditions
• Real time fan status and percent output indication helps you to measure fuel use
• Super User menu for advanced users
• User settable low and slow ramp down feature
• User settable cook timer gives alarm or shuts down your pit
• Battery power indicator
• Adjustable Proportional band, cycle time, offset and deviation alarms
• Display in degrees F or C
• Alarms settable to on or off (good neighbor feature)
• Adjustable display contrast
• 32 to 400 deg F range with +/- 2 deg F accuracy.
2. INSTALLATION
Your Procomm 4 Wireless comes with installation instructions and adaptor hardware
specific to the kind of pit you ordered it for. Please refer to these instructions for
installation. For best communication between the handheld and control it is suggested
that the control be placed close to vertically using the supplied brackets. The handheld
may be held in your hand, placed in belt clip/tilt stand.
3.KEYS
ON/OFF – Powers the unit up and down.
BACKLIGHT – Turns the backlight on for 10 seconds past the last key press.
SCROLL – Indexes through the menu system.
UP – Indexes the shown value up.
DOWN – Indexes the shown value down.
ALARM SILENCE – Silences the current alarm condition.
4.Adjusting LCD Contrast
Press and hold the backlight key and the up or down key to adjust the contrast.
5.Powering Up
Pressing the ON / OFF key will power the handheld up.
During power up the display shows:
B B Q G u r u
1 . 1 9 9
1.1 is the Software version and 99 is the units serial number.
6.STANDARD USER MENU
The screens are shown in the order they appear as the scroll key is pressed. When the
battery power screen is reached and the scroll key is pressed again the menu system will
loop around to the selected main screen.
If the unit is left showing any screen for more than 10 seconds it will revert to the
selected Main Screen.
6.1.Main Screen Selection
When the ProCom 4 is turned on the standard main screen appears. Pressing the up or
down key scrolls through a selection of three main screens.
6.1.1.Standard Main Screen
The * shows when the fan is running. The numbers to the right are the actual Pit and
Meat thermocouple temperatures.
P I T
2 7 3
*
M E A T 1 8 0
From the standard main screen, if the up key is hit the setpoint screen is shown.
6.1.2.Setpoint Main Screen
The actual values are to the left and the setpoints are to the right.
P 2 7 3 2 7 5
M 1 8 0 1 8 5
If the up key is hit again Shot Gun Fred’s Screen is shown.
6.1.3.Shot Gun Fred’s Main Screen
This screen was designed for the advanced user and shows you the Pit Temp, Meat
Temp, Cook Timer, Fan Status, and Fan %.
“R” is shown when the control is actively ramping.
“r” is shown when ramp is enabled but not active.
% Fan shows 0-9 and F for fan running full time.
P 2 7 3 M 1 8 0
0 0 : 0 0 R * 5
If the up key is hit again the standard main screen appears again.
6.1.4.Temperature Display Messages
When the controller is out of range or interference is present the display will show screen
below and then flash “MEAT TEMP UNKNOWN !”:
P I T
- - -
*
M E A T - - -
When the temperature is over 405 deg F the display will show:
OVL = Over Value Limit
P I T
O V L
*
M E A T O V L
When the temperature is below 32 deg F the display will show:
P I T
L O W
*
M E A T L O W
6.2.Aux Screen
Shows the Aux 1 and 2 thermocouple temperatures
A U X 1 1 0 5
A U X 2 1 2 5
6.3.Pit Setpoint Screen
Using the up and down keys the user can adjust the pit setpoint from 32 to 400 deg F.
The default setting is 275 deg F
P I T S E T
2 7 5
6.4.Meat Setpoint Screen
Using the up and down keys the user can adjust the meat setpoint from 32 to 210 deg F.
The default setting is 185 deg F
M E A T S E T
1 8 5
6.5.Timer Screen
Using the up and down keys the user can adjust the cook timer duration, also displays the
actual current time left in the cook. If the handheld unit is powered down, the setting will
go to 00:00. NOTE. From 00:00 press down key to go to 99:59
T I M E R
0 0 : 0 0
6.6.Timeout Action Screen
Selects the timeout action no action, alarm, or shut down. The default setting is no
action.
T I M E O U T
A L A R M