Purchased this after doing a few smoking projects with my neighbor.  He has an older model and it works great.  This would be a great smoker if the dwsign was a little better for the heating element and the chip container, does not generate any smoke on low temps (225).  If you raise the temperature it produces great smoke, but then you really need a temperature probe in your meat.  Your actually cooking the meat not smoking it.  I have smoked items for more than 30 years with charcoal, propane, natural gas smokers. Wanted something that would smoke at lower more controlled temperatures with less cleanup than charcoal. I now hesitate to purchase the slow smoker attachment due to deficincies in the smoker and the leg kit. But for items that don't need low temperatures works well.