I finally had a chance to fire-up my new smoker for the first time. This was just a test run to see if everything worked ok and to season it. Coated the inside with bacon fat and non stick vegetable spray and ran it for 3 hours @ 275° with smoke. The Auber PID worked great. Smoke flow was perfect. The lower thermometer was a bit hotter than the upper one. I need to add a baffle or something to even out the temps. Once I get that figured out I'm ready to smoke some meat.