Wood chips

[havoccontrol]

I have a master forge lp smoker from lowes. I only get about an hour to 1.5 hours from my wood chips is this normal? I've stoked my chips from 1/2 hour to tonight 8 hours and get just about the same amount of smoke

 

[rbranstner]

That's the problem you are going to run into with wood chips. They are going to want to burn up pretty fast. Also those style smokers usually have a pretty small chip container  so you can't get very many in there. I started using a cast iron pan so I  could  get a lot more  loaded at once and I also started  using a mixture of chips and chunks. The chips will start smoking pretty quick and start your smoke and then the chunks will take over and burn longer.