Yeah the second burner is a plan B that I am willing to pursue if needed, but I hope not to need. Now the convection fan idea like, and would not have thought of.Frank_Cox wrote:so, I think you will find that in the case of a pellet hopper the BTU content will not be the issue as much as the required air flow needed to get the cook chamber to temp and keeping it there. a standard 36,000 BTU hopper assembly (smoke Daddy one in this case) moves about 130CFM of air. I would think that would be on the low end. good thing is you can always install a convection fan or even another hopper and put them in parallel on 1 controller.
Since the caps are dead space anyway do you think cutting them off and replacing with 1/4" plate would make a significant difference?