Wow, it was 45 degrees last night when we burned in the grill. Took 20 minutes to get up to 450 once the pellets got through the auger. Not bad, I’ve never seen a pellet grill get that hot. Our old one would get 290 at best on a day like that and maybe, if the sun and moon aligned, up to 400 on a 90 degree day. I am wondering about the fire pit. It seemed to have some unburned particles and little pieces of burned ash all the the inside including on the grate (with sear covers on). Is that normal?
Removing the fire pit was heaven. Almost fun! Which is better than dreading having to get the shop vac, remove everything, vacuum, put it back together, put away the shop vac. Also like the ability to dump a bunch of pellets in without worrying how much because now there is a pellet dump door. The pellet hopper looks like something that doesn’t let the pellets get hung up so I no longer need to check the hopper every 10-15 minutes.