Your doing it the hard way, just set the temp for 80 or 100 and go do something else. Chips or slivers of wood are best for low temp smokes for me.
Is 80 or 100 enough to keep the chips smoking and the cold plate holding back the temps?
Brian - I'm wondering the same thing. I've been doing the 15 minute full blast (to get some good smoke going), then 45 minutes off, with cold plate and ice, for my cold smokes too. Seems to work well, but does require some tending. My fear is that I'm not going to get much smoke production by setting the temp to 80-100 and leaving it. Seems like the element wouldn't come on often enough, or long enough, to get good smoke, but I've never tried it.