Yes! Yes! Raise it because the X steel framing on the bottom of the
AMNPS on a flat surface blocks bottom air flow. When your
AMNPS is elevated, in the draft, in a mailbox mod, so the cherry is burning with the draft, you'll never get better than that.
Remember the bagged vacuum cleaners with the motor in the bottom, blowing crap up with a belt on the agitator roller brush, with debris smacking the fan blade and blowing dirt into the dirt bag? That's why motors are at the end of vacuum cleaners these days, puling joints together. They now suck! Literally! Convection is the motor The smoke generator should be in the middle, between the convection maker and air intake of a electric/propane source. Otherwise it's fuel/flavor heat from wood/charcoal. Otherwise your cooking the smoke generator/pellets for no reason. I guess we didn't evolve and since the
Amnps it is hot and smoldering we need to put it in with the heat source where the food is.
No matter where the
Amnps is, the cherry may want to go out in the middle of the middle row (where the X marks the spot.) That's when it's burning against the draft in the MB mod. After five hours of smoke I take the AMNPS out of the mailbox and turn it 180 degrees and put it back in so the burn goes with the draft into the smoker, stoking the pellets. I get four hours per row on the AMNPS.
When hot smoking with a watt burner, smoke needs to be sucked not pushed. Or a push me, pull you and wonder why your getting too much smoke or none when the smoke generator fails.
Just like idiots trying to get on a packed elevator. Those SOB 's won't get on till someone gets off. Kinda like the top vent on the Mes fully closed. Since you can compress air and it's driven by heat, you'll get all kinds of convection out of a fully closed top vent with probe leads coming out of it without any worries with the Amnps on a mailbox mod failing. My top vent keeps idiots from getting into my elevator before others can get off. If your not using the Mes the way it was intended to be used, then get the after market smoke generator out of the product chamber. Do a test! If your're making smoke, then your making creosote. Let a horizontal chimney work for you. It's a cleaner, drier, lighter and IMHO a higher quality smoke. Chimney sweeps clean crap out of a chimneys, so if it was horizontal going into my smoker that crap didn't make it to my food. Especially cold smoking.
-Kurt