Fan, solid fuel heater.

[Vara]

While trying to solve another problem came across one of these gadgets;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First4Spare...4NJA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351609893&sr=8-1

Ideal for wafting the heat around for our more traditional members, might even work on drip fed heaters.

 

[chewi]

While trying to solve another problem came across one of these gadgets;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First4Spare...4NJA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351609893&sr=8-1

Ideal for wafting the heat around for our more traditional members, might even work on drip fed heaters.

Amazing, so silent. we had one on a borrowed canal boat a couple of weeks ago.

It would live on the floor in a sailing boat thought, top heavy and no clamp.

 

[Vara]

Amazing, so silent. we had one on a borrowed canal boat a couple of weeks ago.

It would live on the floor in a sailing boat thought, top heavy and no clamp.

Wouldn't have thought that some sort of clamp would be a problem, the foot is just aluminium, so easy to screw or rivet.

It's quiet operation is what appealed to me.

 

[Poignard]

What is the piece of bent wire at the top for? It looks like you could hang it up from that but I thought (perhaps wrongly) that it had to sit on top of the stove.

 

[Vara]

What is the piece of bent wire at the top for? It looks like you could hang it up from that but I thought (perhaps wrongly) that it had to sit on top of the stove.

It's a handle so that you can alter the angle of fan without burning fingers.

 

[Poignard]

Well done! I wondered who'd be first to spot that

 

[Gumpy]

I have an ecofan running here at present what I want is one of these
http://www.stirlingengine.co.uk/d.asp?product=VULCANSTOVEFAN

There are other engines on that site butnot as useful

 

[ProDave]

What is the piece of bent wire at the top for? It looks like you could hang it up from that but I thought (perhaps wrongly) that it had to sit on top of the stove.

I think the generator is a peltier effect device, so it needs a temperature gradient from the hot bit that sits on the stove, to the top bit, that's shaped like a heat sink to dissipate heat and cool it.

so I doubt it would work if not in actual contact with the stove.

 

[snowleopard]

While trying to solve another problem came across one of these gadgets;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First4Spare...4NJA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351609893&sr=8-1

Ideal for wafting the heat around for our more traditional members, might even work on drip fed heaters.

A friend has one on his canal boat. I was surprised how little air it pushed. Putting a hand in front of it I couldn't feel any air movement.

 

[Searush]

What is the piece of bent wire at the top for? It looks like you could hang it up from that but I thought (perhaps wrongly) that it had to sit on top of the stove.

Yes, these fans are powered by heat differential between the base (on a heat source) & the upper cooling fans, so the must be placed on a hot surface to work.

They are also not a strong fan & merely gently redistribute the heat from above the stove out into the room. We have one in the lounge on our woodburner, it offers an interesting topic of conversation but not a huge increase in room temperature.

 

[Vara]

A friend has one on his canal boat. I was surprised how little air it pushed. Putting a hand in front of it I couldn't feel any air movement.

The one I was playing with this pm was pushing a noticeable amount of hot air about, but the stove it was on was very hot. In their spec they claim 150 cubic feet a minute.

It's just struck me that if I only had a couple of posts I might be accused of selling these, I'm not, just happened across one and it appealed to me.

 

[Lakesailor]

You come on here selling your snake-oil products and claim just because you have been here a while it's OK. Shame.

 

[Vara]

You come on here selling your snake-oil products and claim just because you have been here a while it's OK. Shame.

Don't make waves and I'll cut you in.

 

[Morven]

I have an ecofan running here at present what I want is one of these
http://www.stirlingengine.co.uk/d.asp?product=VULCANSTOVEFAN

There are other engines on that site butnot as useful

I have that fan! Great bit of kit, near to silent, requires just a gentle push to start working, fascinating to watch in action. I ended up reversing the fan blades so is sucks rather than blows and I can keep the working parts to the front where you can watch them in action.

 

[chewi]

Wouldn't have thought that some sort of clamp would be a problem, the foot is just aluminium, so easy to screw or rivet.

It's quiet operation is what appealed to me.

thats fine if you want to drill a hole in both the stove and the fan...or to something magnetic in between, but off the shelf it would be an issue.

 

[MM5AHO]

I have one of the Stirling engine types on home base wood stove. It puts out a reasoanble amount of air. Certainly circulates air in the room.

My daughter has one of the peltier electric types, and by comparison its useless.