12" Pellet Hopper Assembly Kit W/Vertical Controller by Direct Igniter

I purchased this after seeing a video showing how easy it would be to install in a Traeger Lil Tex 22 series grill. The unit works great and I love it. I did have a few minor issues during the installation. I had to remove the bottom cover in order to thread the temp probe wire / lead through the front hole using a coat hanger + masking tape. I also drilled a hole in the grill body so the temp probe wire would match up without getting pinched. No big deal. I also opted to replace the Phillip's head fasteners with #6 x 20mm hex headed cap bolts + washers. That cost me a whole $11 dollars. Direct Igniter has been great to work with. They even called me to follow up after my initial reach-out re: the temp probe question.

Used for a custom built smoker. The controller was damaged upon arrival, but the replacement was sent quickly. The smoker works excellent!

The instructions looked photocopied and the template page was about 60% scale.I ended up measuring the auger tube to cut a hole in my smoker box and sliding the hopper in without using the included hardware. I then removed 10 or so screws to pull the pellet hopper off of the auger mount (showing the 4 bolts that hold the box assembly the smoker and ended up just drilling my own holes to use my own hardware).The only thing this needs is a self adjusting PID controller.

Overall this pellet smoker does it’s job, but temp control could be more accurate. On the smoke setting my cabinet stays around 140-150F. On 200 setting it stays between 170 and 190, and so on. But it heats/smokes well and is very simple to install, so overall I’m happy with it.

Works great. Had an old commercial food warmer that I cut a hole and installed this. The temperature control works in a range of 10-25 degrees from set temperature. Meaning if it's set to 225 it will go all the way up to 250 and as low as 200. If you're heating a large cabinet it must be insulated.

First use item worked correctly. On second use igniter does not heat up and unit does not light. Have to manually light, seems too soon to be broken already. Sent email and chat message through sellers website and got zero response. Very disappointed, thinking I got ripped off.

This product worked great for my homemade smoker

Used this to make a old 1930’s refrigerator into a smoker worked perfectly, the temperature control is more a cycle between high and low fan to maintain about a 60 degree variable on either side of the temperature, but the probe can also be moved higher in the box for a hotter configuration.Uses metric screws not standard.Slow moving auger means a light but effective smoke from start to finish.