Another WoodBurner Question :)

Fruball

hethmar wrote: »

http://www.whatstove.co.uk/clearview-stoves/clearview-pioneer-400-stove.html

http://www.sandpitsheatingcentre.co.uk/clearview-stoves/b6

Don't know why I couldnt' find those... Thanks

suki1964

w50nky wrote: »

The Ecofan works on the petltier effect. There is another stove fan which more expensive but does not use the peltier cells which can/will die if overheated. You can buy spare motors, blades etc. but not the cells as these need to be fitted with care. The manufacture will not sell them apparantly.

The vulcan fan is really a stirling engine with a fan and is a great talking point to those with technical minds! (expensive though).

Look at these sites for more info.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxO5d0B9Gwg

http://www.internationallife.tv/Vulcan-Stove-Fan

To see if you find a fan usefull try a desktop fan to waft air around your stove. Do not sit your desk fan on your stove top though!

You know I was thinking of the desk fan for a trial ( not just a pretty face)

Tbh im looking at the fan for me mams stove. She in her wisdom rushed out and bought a stove from the big company in town - and they sold her what she wanted - and not what she needed.

So now she is stuck with a 6kw stove which if she burns at full blast burns her out of the room. Keeping a small fire going and theres not enough heat being thrown around - Im still having to use the oil heating as well when her stove should be capable of heating the downstairs enough to not to need additional heating on anything other then the coldest of days.

Her stove is in the fire place and Im sure most the heat flies up the chimney and is lost

Do you think its worth the while giving it a try? or is she better trained into getting the stove working at full pelt and keeping all the doors open ( she also says full pelt and the anthracite burns too fast :eek: - she wont be told )

Swipe

Many people on one of the stove forums I go on swear by a desk fan placed in the doorway of the stove room, blowing the colder air into the room. This provides convection and the heat from the stove is distributed around the house. It sounds odd at first but give it a try and see what you think. It does work well.

mardatha

I would always go for a multi fuel burner, coal is much hotter and lasts much longer

suki1964

mardatha wrote: »

I would always go for a multi fuel burner, coal is much hotter and lasts much longer

Only if being burned at is full potential - she burns anthracite on hers - but wont open the stove up to get enough air in to get the stove really working

I use a base of smokeless on mine and top up with logs as and when but then getting good seasoned wood here is nigh on impossible without costing an arm and leg

mardatha

Ours is liek a furnace tonight LOL the husband always puts too much coal on and the wind makes it roar.

welda

I paid £80 inclusive of p&p for two bladed eco fan, three blade one was over £100, and as already stated, is a lot of wonga for two bits of aluminium extrusion sandwich together with the motor part in the middle. I pfaffed about last winter with a desk top fan, worked well, but obviously requires power, I stripped out my old desk top pc before taking to recycle depot, I made a small stand for pc cooling fan, worked just as well as desk fan, but again requires power, hence eco fan purchase, I looked at sterling fan too, mega pricey tho!!

A few interesting replies regarding "what other features" I reckon a good secondary burn is very important to get as much heat from wood/coal before launching remainder up the lum, need to try summit on next gas bottle one I make!

:beer:

Ps, has to be flat top, for obvious reasons.............

welda

French equivelant of eco-fan, I did a search, cant source any here in UK, anyone have or using one, see turbo 2 detail right hand side of page 51.

http://www.supra.fr/medias/File/pages-statiques/poeles_a_bois-cheminees-ttes-pretes.html

Ps, I know, tis in french :beer:

Pps, link takes you to front page of catalouge, top left you see a counter, this click till you are at page 51 :j

w50nky

Sacra heck!

Looks like it is electric powered by the look of that fan.
I wonder if it also automaticly clears the ash & debris from your hearth at the same time!

If only I had listened to the french teacher.......

anotherbaldrick

I have just ordered my Ecofan through Amazon.com (USA) £68 including packing and delivery and all duties paid with acompanying customs declaration. Now that is a bit more like it !!