I am so glad to hear that, Larry! Says a lot about Ninja as a company. I enjoy using my smaller unit, but I am sure not nearly as often as you use yours. So far, I have not had any issues with mine. Besides doing a nice job of adding smoke flavor to simple grilling, it gets called on to do duty as an air fryer as well. I only wish I had gotten the larger model like you have, but most of the time for just three of us, the one I have is OK.