Smoke goes steady when it's turned on from the remote, it drops to pulsing when it's off, apparently to keep the element warm enough to get smoke fairly quickly. This is the same thing that the Legacy whistle steam does.
The pulse rate doesn't change regardless of the smoke volume settings. Truthfully, it appears for all the world as if it's totally ignoring the smoke volume settings! I had a voltmeter and my temperature sensor connected to the test resistor, the voltage or the temperature didn't change at all. The response of the resistor should be a non-factor, I'm sure they're not taking feedback from the resistor into consideration.
There is no CAP involved, there is a small microprocessor on the smoke regulator board that controls the action.
I'm going to dig out a different model of the smoke regulator and see if I get a different result. I know some of these regulators do respond to the test sequence, I'm a bit befuddled as to why these don't respond like I'd expect.
