Thanks Bentley. And yes, I certainly do know about the (now) 27 page posting - buried in the middle somewhere I did find some information around this. To be fair, there's so much discussion in that post it's hard to weed the information out. Regardless, my question here isn't out of line - different people have different results, and I'm not going to rush out and buy it just because of one person's results, even if it is Bentley. :-)
So hopefully anyone else with this smoker can provide their feedback too. Looks like a great unit for the price, but I'm a bit guarded after being only moderately satisfied with my CS450. Thanks!