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Tell us about it. Can it be retro'ed into an existing unit. Sounds like a great improvement.
Orion

Yes please, I bought my 640 3 weeks ago!

There will be Yoder Smokers ACS retrofit kits will be available in Q3. We will email all registered owners when the kit is available. Ceramic igniters are available for purchase currently. All items will be available for purchase from your dealer as well. Please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

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Thank you look forward to hearing more

Will the new controller make it into the YS1500?

Yes

Not Happy at all I specifically called Yoder and asked if they would be coming out with a wifi unit and they told me NO!!!!!!!!! smh my YS640 is a month old! all they had to say is yes we are coming out with a wifi unit and I would have waited! Not cool at all new wheels I would have liked them! and wifi unit is what I wanted in the first place! now after spending 3,000 I have to pay more to upgrade my brand new grill? something is NOT right about this!
This is a Terrible way to treat your customers Yoder!

ItsGMan21 wrote:Not Happy at all I specifically called Yoder and asked if they would be coming out with a wifi unit and they told me NO!!!!!!!!! smh my YS640 is a month old! all they had to say is yes we are coming out with a wifi unit and I would have waited! Not cool at all new wheels I would have liked them! and wifi unit is what I wanted in the first place! now after spending 3,000 I have to pay more to upgrade my brand new grill? something is NOT right about this!
This is a Terrible way to treat your customers Yoder!

There was not a single employee outside of the Development Team that had any prior knowledge of any changes or updates. No sales or customer service personnel had any prior knowledge of the model "s" announcement. We all found out at the exact same time it was announced publically. So if you called anytime prior to 12 noon CDT on April 24, 2019, no one had any knowledge of anything being announced, so what you were told was what we all knew to be true.

Also, Yoder Smokers NEVER leaves any customer behind. All of our changes are completely compatible with any of our cookers, all the way back to the very first cookers sold, Just to be clear, the price of the new "s" cookers went up with the announcement, so anyone buying the new "s" cookers will be paying more than anyone that purchased the standard cookers. Since the pricing for the ACS retro fit kits have yet to be announced, it is not known what someone that bought a prior model would have to pay to upgrade, compared to the new "s" model pricing.

I personally am not aware of any company that announces anything that is in development prior to any official public announcement. As a point of reference, I bought a $60,000 diesel truck, and a new mid-year model, with new features I would have liked to have had, was announced the very next week after my purchase, and when I asked if I could update my truck to the new features, I was told a very unpleasant "NO".

Ok

I Guess It Still Hasn't Been Released?

Release date???

Why is Yoder Charging its BRAND NEW OWNERS 399.00 for the Control Panel Upgrade ? Wow! Unbelievable!

I find 399$ and 429$ absurd. I have 2 ys640’s, and a ys1500. It’s gonna cost me about 1500$ to upgrade these grills I already bought for nearly 10,000$! Maybe trade in on old controller?
I hope yoder doesn’t discontinue parr’s for the old controller! Because I plan on staying with my old controller and my fireboard seperate