Is anyone able to provide some feedback on the above?SouthamptonSmoker wrote: ↑July 17th, 2018, 6:56 amHi Rodcrafter, thanks for the reply - Yes the cook chamber is the entire top section. The oven is a different device, which will not want any smoke passing internally just heat around the outside. The firebox is purely the left hand side of the bottom section. This will be about 17" square internally then i will loose more for a fire basket, but i am at 183% recommended side, so have no issue loosing some firebox space.
The first attachment of the last post with pictures show some detail. It is easy for me to see as I am drawing it, would it help if I annotated what is what. In that picture the baffle plate is in there, and has a transparent blue hue to it. You can also see the cook chamber to fire box opening and that the baffle plate stops short of the end on the right hand side of the cook chamber. The riser section, where it ends that is the bottom of the cook chamber, the section in there only passes through the insulated section through the outer box into the inner box.
My opening from cook chamber to firebox is 68mm x 410mm (2.67" x 16.1") shooting for about 40.7". I end up just over.
Because the width of the cook chamber is already wider than the opening to firebox, I reduce the height a little and come out with 60mm x 437mm (2.36" x 17.2") - i am guessing this is the throat?
At the end i have the same gap, 60mm x 437mm. So I leave 2.36" at the end of the baffle plate.
I am not sure what a shadow plate is? Can you explain a little. I am not sure if you are you saying this wont be a reverse flow smoker? Or because it will be plug welded rather than fully welded throughout? I am a little green on all the terminology.
Essentially I am going to have the hottest section of the firebox fully open across almost its entire width, but only 2" or so deep. I would of thought the heat would of roared up there, better so than an offset design, because of the convection of heat. Once the baffle plate has seen that heat, it will radiate which is not influence by direction, so will heat that entire plate up?
Still a bit uncertain, but does seem according to what you say, it appears I am about right for the dimensions?
But just bit of understanding the difference between a shadow and baffle plate, and engineering behind each would help me understand a bit better.