I was a lucky beta tester for the AMNS and I use a 2 yr old 40" MES, I have place the AMNS in two locations:
• on top of the two horz. bars that run across the cabinet from the wood chip & elect element housing. The 6x6 will sit across the bars fine, you will have to adjust a bit because of the two runner legs under the AMNS, and have to be careful to NOT knock off the AMNS when everything is hot. You could sit the AMNS in a shallow pan and place on the bars. The only problem is drippings, I tried using a pie tin turn over on top the AMNS to prevent drippings from hitting the dust, but that trapped too much heat and caused all the dust to ignite, (makes a lot of nice smoke though
). So I try to carefully mount so as much of the water pan covers the AMNS without touching the element housing. I'm not sure since my element is only 800 watts, but there could be a potential problem with the extra heat of the 1200 watt element and the AMNS being so close.
• I have also placed the AMNS on the bottom rack in a shallow pan. I have done this about 3 or 4 times and no problem smoking, however I was usually doing a pork butt and the Butt was on the opposite side of the cabinet to avoid drippings getting in the dust.
There should be no problem placing the AMNS in the bottom drip pan raised of course, centered under the water pan. The amount of drippings I get from one or two pork butts or when I do 3 racks of ribs, is not much usually.
I have to say my fav spot is on the horz bars. though I need to go get a thin sheet of Alum and make a upside down V hood to stop any drippings from hitting the dust.
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