For those using traegers, you kinda have to tend to the pellet hopper when doing long smokes. The pellets will form a hole and not feed. The pellets form a funnel shape in the hopper and the auger no longer gets pellets. You have to move the pellets around to avoid the funnel effect. A way to minimize this is to keep the hopper as full as possible. I have had my traeger for over 3 years and love the thing. I fabbed up a hopper extention and sloped sides so I don't get the failure to feed pellet funnel anymore.