Controlling the heat in my Smoker

[OscarBoots@23]

Hi Forum,
I've used my smoker a few times, smoking ribs & beef and I've always had the same problem controlling the temperature.
I have a Hark gas smoker and I prepare the meat, soak the wood chips in water before draining and adding to the tray above the gas flame.
I want to maintain a steady 120 degrees celsius but to do this, I need to have the gas turned to barely on.
Any slight breeze will blow out the flame, but turning the heat up and opening the vents still is too hot??
Has anyone got this problem and found an answer?
Is it the smoker?
All help welcomed.
Thanks

 

[BigW.]

Welcome to the forum! 2 ideas that may help. Try getting smoker out of the wind. Either use house as a wind block or build a plywood block. Anything that will help the flame to not blow out. There are a few threads hear where folks added nails or screws into the burner holes. It is usually done to keep heat down. My thoughts is if you had half the holes open, you could turn the gas up on the rest. Hopefully less flame outs.

 

[SmokinEdge]

A picture of the burner set up and inside the smoker would help us better make recommendations.