I'm new here, but not to smoking. Used to hang around another forum, more reading than posting. Unfortunately, the activity in that forum seems to have lowered drastically since I last participated in it. I've used an ECB, a Brinkman offset, and converted a Brinkman electric smoker to charcoal. The Brinkman offset was a bit of a challenge to learn, using charcoal, but once I got it down, and made a few mods, easy to run. I looked forward to participating in this community.