Hi im sam new to the smoking world i just got a Bradley Smoker it was hard to settle on this my girlfriend was ready to kill me since i kept driving back and forth to stores and looking at reviews on our phones. And I figured it will be ok they have a lot of good reviews , So I smoked for the first time last night last a 6 lb pork shoulder. I just seasoned the smoker than put some rub on the pork put it in and some smoke pucks and let it go , Yea right i couldnt not stop wanting to see it pacing worrying lol but finally i found this site and it told me to relax and let it smoke so i did finally at 2 am it was done and it was amazing to taste. My problem was i did not have it hot enough once i turned it up to 225 it went much faster. I have not had issues with it heating up it does it fast so hopefully it will keep working agian and again