I bought this for my newly purchased MES130P electric smoker. It is very easy to assemble and can be attached or detached from the smoker very quickly. I love the ability to load it up with chips and get a good long smoke. The unit starts to generate smoke very quickly. There is surprisingly little "leakage" of smoke from the unit. The overwhelming majority of the smoke produced goes into the smoker as advertised. While the unit is not marketed as a cold smoker, you definitely gain the ability to produce smoke without heating the primary unit.