Well, fired mine up for the 1st time last night. Had been brining a piece of Alaskan salmon for 2 days. Rinsed and air dried in refrigerator for several hours. Filled the smoker gun with alder chips (from Fruita). First tried to light it by dropping in a small lit piece of charcoal. It kept going out. So, out came the MAPP torch and I lit'er up through the side hole. Then, turned on the pump and boy did the smoke come out!!! Plugged into the guru port in the KK and smoked poured out of everywhere - out the top vent (just cracked open), out the front and back doors, out the temperature probe port. Crazy! Oh, I had the air tube about 1/2 way in on the screw threads. Made a guess that this was a "medium" setting, with fully inserted is "low" and almost out is "high???"
Since it's been seriously hot and humid here, I wanted to do this as an overnight smoke, as the overnight lows were supposed to be in the low 70sF. So I started this at 10:30pm. I woke up about 4am and went out to check on it. All the wood chips had burned up and the gun was stone cold. Have no idea how long it lasted. So, I reloaded and fired it up again. Went back to bed. Got up around 7am and checked it. It had gone out after burning about a handful of the chips. Stone cold again. So, I called it good and wrapped up the salmon in pink butcher paper. Plan is for bagels and cream cheese Saturday morning.
I still have no idea how long a tube of chips will burn. So, lesson learned, this thing needs to be baby sat, unlike doing a low & slow cook on the regular KK setup. Next attempt will be during the day when I can watch it more closely. Thinking smoked pork chops.