Southern Pride mobile pit users

The info plate on my Southern Pride SPK500 shows a maximum draw of 5.5 amps. I have never had any issues with using a generator, however, I have a 9000 watt that I use for my house.

42BBQ a Honda 2000 quiet generator should do the trick. I had a SPX 300 with smoke extractor and exhaust fan, ran my 13,500 BTU AC and had lights on and never an issue with the Honda 3000IE.

42BBQ said:

Beautiful, thanks for the info. Been thinking about Southern Pride vs a traditional stickburner for a lot of reasons. But one quick question, lots of mechanical and moving parts in an SP, how much annual maintenance goes into one?

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Moving parts in a southern pride??? you have a electric motor driving the gear box via Vee belt, the gear box is a Boston reduction unit which drives a bull gear thropugh a pinion..mine runs 5 days a week during the busy season (spk 700), for maintinence use the food grade grease on the beariings once or twice a year, some grease on the pinion twice a year and once a year ck the gear box oil and drive belts.....the only problem with a SP, is it will trip a ground fault breaker....
I can put 20 butts in at 11:00, along with 10 briskets..set the temp ...add some wood....................................go to bed
and come back at 8 am and pull them out...you going do that with a stick burner?????????????????????

BigBellyBBQ said:

I can put 20 butts in at 11:00, along with 10 briskets..set the temp ...add some wood....................................go to bed
and come back at 8 am and pull them out...you going do that with a stick burner?????????????????????

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You can if your cooking on an Oyler. :thumb:

also of note I will run day and night with the propane assist, only will use 2 20 pound picnic jugs of propane for 3 days and about 2 bushels of wood..if I am doing lots of chicken, you have to go lighter on the wood and crank it up to 325 or so for a ncie crisp skin....200 halves done in 70 minutes..