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It runs the air intake for the grill. Although I haven’t tried to run the unit without it being plugged in, I think the smoker has to be plugged in for it to work. I was able to grill with the unit plugged into a large portable battery pack though.

@@johnmicahb Thanks! So there is no re-chargeable battery for the fan to run huh?

@@thegbigsurf1 not with the this model. It has to be plugged in either to a wall outlet or a separate battery unit. It’s a small setback, but it’s a great unit once you know what you’re expecting!

@@johnmicahb Thanks

You can use wood chips, but the company recommends starting the fire with 4lbs of charcoal. When I grilled and smoked I used a mix of charcoal and wood.

I’ve had a small issue (obvious temperature reading) with the probes, but never got a chance to troubleshoot the issue. The company might’ve fixed the issue with an update for the grill, but I haven’t grilled in a while to see if that fixed it. It’s a great grill! Even if the probes are the issue, I’m sure there are other ways of checking the temperature of the meat with your phone and a Bluetooth probe.

I haven’t ever used one of those, but I love my grill! I’m learning more about it every chance I get to use it!

The instructions said to start the fire with charcoal, and then you can add wood to the hopper. I haven’t smoked with only wood.

It wasn’t the easiest, but I got it working in about 4 hours. The paper instructions only had diagrams which were unclear in a couple of areas. It probably took me a little longer because I didn’t have any help. I had to go back and fix the wiring while I was halfway through the assembly. It’s a great grill and smoker though!

I have no clue why others with better grilling and smoking knowledge aren’t making videos on the grill, but I will answer your questions as best I can. Basically, the grill has a hopper where you load the fuel (charcoal, wood chunks) that feeds into a small area where the charcoal burns. The smoke from the fuel rises into the grill portion where it heats (pretty evenly from what little I’ve done) the grill grates. There is also a drip pan under the grates that catches grease (and may help evenly distribute the smoke and heat). As far as the heat plummeting goes, I added a lot of super dry wood chunks that I thought would burn for a while (I’m new at smoking lol), but it just made the temperature rise up really quickly before dropping because there wasn’t other fuel in the hopper to burn. When I noticed the temperature was low, I added more charcoal which eventually got the grill back up to smoking temperature. I will try and make another video that shows how the grill works.

I really like it and plan on actually grilling on it soon. I think I would like it more if I had more experience smoking meat, but that will come with time and learning how to smoke better.

I really do! If you want and expect grill that could be used without power, this isn’t it. I would consider this more of an electric charcoal/hardwood smoker that can also grill.

Exactly. Same has happened with my Char-Griller Gravity 980. Set and forget is a fantasy. A more accurate description would be set it and check on it every half hour to an hour, or at least check the temp on the app. The app must not have temp alarm settings. They should get on that ASAP. For now, I’ll stick with my 980 with the FireBoard 2 Pro running the fan. I’d love to see one of these companies that make gravity grill/smokers collaborate with FireBoard and include their rock solid technology in their grill.

@coreym3675 I have the masterbuilt 560 gravity grill and it only happen 1 where the lump got stuck like that and temperature dropped. I packed it down now when I used lump. Haven't had the problem with briquettes and char logs

​@@coreym3675I added a small electric vibrator that goes off every 30 mins that keeps it from bridging

The instructions said if you were to use just wood, you would need to put at least 2lbs of charcoal in the hopper before you add the wood. When I smoked my ham I mainly used charcoal and added wood intermittently.

Thanks! I made a second video with my first time using it to smoke meat. There are some app problems now, but those will get fixed. The smoker itself is solid!

@@johnmicahb we have been saying that chargriller is going to fix their app problems for 3 plus years lol. Do you know if it's a cloud-based app or you have to be within reach of the grill with your phone like on the same wireless?

@@JackBurtonYT it’s Bluetooth and also cloud based. The grill was connected to my home Wi-Fi and I was away from the house monitoring the grill via cellular data.

It is gravity fed, so it burns everything you put in the hopper.

Should be able to turn the dial and snuff out the coals, if not, that’s a huge oversight. There’s a little swinging cover right above the controller side that allows you to slip the probe through so that the wire isn’t propping the door open…

Thanks for the video, just saw these and GO BEARS

I can't believe there aren't more reviews up on this smoker!

​@@JulianStevens122it's brand new. Sure more will come up!

I looked one over at Lowe's yesterday. The metal is the same gauge as a Chargriller or Masterbuilt (thin😄) so I highly doubt there's much difference in fuel consumption. Equally, would be the life expectancy for the fire box components and manifold. That greatly depends on how you use the grill (smoking vs grilling). I burnt through the lower half of my Masterbuilt within 3 years due to more grilling and grease burnoffs. Lots of people using them for smokers-only get better life out of the parts.

I haven’t tried to sear anything yet.

I’ll check out his videos. Thanks!