Smoking can be a problem in low temps and winds.. Unless of course you have one of my smokers
I'll have to live with this MES 30 for a while. I'm too new to smoking to even know about other products, but where I live I'm going to need an insulated unit and a quick recovery ability. Right now the 800 watts in my smoker means I either don't open the door when I would like to, or I do and lose a lot of heat that takes a very long time to recover. That happened yesterday when the temp dropped below 200 long enough for the meat to drop from 153 into the 140s. I think, not sure, that that would cause some drying out of the meat.
For me the ideal situation would be a unit that I can keep on the covered deck. And if I could do a mod on this unit that would double its heating capacity, that would come pretty close. Propane would be next. I wouldn't use charcoal on the deck, and it may not be allowed when we are under fire restrictions, which is very frequent here in the forest.
Oops. Just looked at your smoker. Quite a bit out of my league!