The assembly was straight forward and simple. I only cross threaded on screw.  I found it heated on high with everything closed to about 375 degrees and took about 15 minutes to reach that level of heat. 

I slow smoked a turkey breast as my first effort. The bottom pan smokes best when empty of water. This was no problem as the suplimentary pan supplied was adequate to keep things moist. 

The temperature was easy to maintain at 250 and it took about 2 1/2 hours to cook the entire breast. Overall things worked smoothly and with no trouble . Nice set up of equipment, good solid racks to cook on. I got the cover for it so I would not have to bring it in to protect from weather. One note. My experience says that spiders like to build nest in things like this. So if you suddenly don't get gas flow or it won't light check all the tubes for a spider nest.