Smoker "No-Fire" with resistance Anel®

⚙️ You switch it on by plugging it in, not by pressing

The battery sits in its pouch, held by a velcro strap on the back of the bellows, and a yellow connector runs from it to the one on the heating element. As long as both connectors are joined, the element heats; to stop it, you pull them apart. This smoker has no on/off switch: the connector is the control, and it is worth knowing before you buy. It becomes a habit: unplug as you close up each apiary.

🌿 Vapor Pads®: cold smoke and no ember in the chamber

The fuel for this version is the Vapor Pads® pad: rock wool soaked in essential oils, with extinguishing agents so that it vaporises without developing a flame. You place one pad on the aeration grate using the grabber supplied with the smoker, close the lid and it starts giving off vapour. One pad lasts more than 3 hours. Because the smoke is cold, you avoid the sudden flare-ups that in a traditional smoker end up scorching bees on the top bars. The pads are sold separately.

✓ The combination for this version: a type CR device (marked on the lower right of the back of the bellows) + a 7.4 V battery → Vapor Pads® fuel.

⚠ Do not pair it with Cool Smoke® pellets: on the CR type those pellets go with the 3.7 V battery. Combining Cool Smoke® with a higher voltage than recommended pushes the temperature beyond what the fuel's extinguishing agents can handle, and a flame may develop.

🔋 Real running time and the two ways to charge it

The battery is lithium, 7.4 V and 6000 mAh, with deep-discharge protection: between one hour and an hour and a half of continuous heating, and it only draws current while the connector is joined. Both chargers come in the box, the 220 V one for home and the 12 V cigarette-lighter one for topping up in the van; the mains charger has European prongs, so outside the EU you will need a plug adapter. Always charge it with a charger of its own voltage: a higher one will destroy the battery and may cause a fire.

🔄 Hybrid: it also lights conventional fuel

The chamber takes conventional fuel — dry pine needles, clean wood shavings — and there the element works as a lighter: with the 7.4 V battery, 10 to 30 seconds with the lid closed and you have an ember, no matches needed. Cards on the table: in that mode there is combustion and there may be a flame, exactly as in a conventional smoker. Lighting inside a closed chamber reduces the risk, it does not remove it. If you are buying it precisely for high-risk days, the mode to use is Vapor Pads®.