Today, it seemed just fine, except for the erratic temp readouts. Took about 25 minutes to get up to 325 from 210. The erratic readouts only happened when I was kicking up the temp not during the initial startup.
Another thing I noticed the last few times, on the initial warm up, it seems to feed quite a few pellets. The firepot closer to the hopper has a good flame going, but the side closer to the exhaust has an accumulation of pellets that aren't burning. I've opened the hopper cover for a while to stop them from feeding once I get a good fire in the entire pot, I've closed the hopper and all was fine.
Firepot cleaned out before the cook. Using a fairly fresh bag of Lumberjack 100% pecan, plugged into a GFCI outlet that doesn't work. Need to replace it one of these days.