Ecofan

abwsco

Looking at getting an Ecofan 800 in readiness for winter. Can anyone tell me where is best to buy from one as prices seem to vary quite a bit. Ta:)

penrhyn

Sorry but why would anyone want one of these?
A cheap electric fan would be more effective.

muckybutt

penrhyn wrote: »

Sorry but why would anyone want one of these?
A cheap electric fan would be more effective.

Do you know what one is exactly ? an electric fan .... you having a larf ?

There are loads of places eco fans can be bought from on the tinternet, somewhere on here there is / was a thread full of links on where to buy them.

They aint cheap though !

Cardew

muckybutt wrote: »

Do you know what one is exactly ? an electric fan .... you having a larf ?


They aint cheap though !

Surely that is exactly what they are - a variable speed fan, albeit powered by the heat from the stove.

penrhyn

I think the company flogging these eco-toys for £100 is indeed having a larf. An interesting variation on a Peltier device.

alleycat`

You can get variants of these for less than £70 now although i can't comment on how effective they are as i don't have one.

Assuming they work? I wonder what the ROI would be v's using an electric fan.

It is obvious the electric fan is cheap up front but how long would it take for the electric used to add up to the cost of powering the other fan via the stove (which is going to be on anyway).

[Deleted User]

Being an MSE site, probably best to spend the £100 on wood, coal etc

Just a gimmick IMHO...

Cardew

alleycat` wrote: »

You can get variants of these for less than £70 now although i can't comment on how effective they are as i don't have one.

Assuming they work? I wonder what the ROI would be v's using an electric fan.

It is obvious the electric fan is cheap up front but how long would it take for the electric used to add up to the cost of powering the other fan via the stove (which is going to be on anyway).

A small fan would possibly use 10watts.

So pricing electricity at 10p/kWh it would run for 1,000 hours for £1. So using it for 6 hours a day - every day for 6 months would cost approx £1 a year.

Not buying the Ecofan and investing the £100 in a long term Building Society account would produce £3 a year after tax.

* In any case the fan will produce 10 watts of heat.

As perpetual motion hasn't yet been discovered, the Ecofan requires energy(from the stove) to turn the blades. So you need to calculate how much the solid fuel in the stove costs per kWh output.

Greenfires

Ahhh - wondered when the Ecofan argument would surface here! This argument has gone on as long as Stihl vs. Husqvarna in chainsaw world, Mk5 vs. Mk6 in Transit world and pump out vs. cassette in canal boat toilet world!

Nearly everyone who has an ecofan reckons they're spot on - almost without exception. Some of the "fans" (see what I did there) have gone as far as taking various temperature and time measurements with and without the fan in operation - and they are convinced. The people who say they're crap, almost without exception, don't have one, never have and never will. Therefore Ecofans are crap. This side also say that the people who think they're great are only saying so as they're embarrassed to have "fallen for the hype"!

The whole idea of an ecofan is that it moves a large volume of air very gently. A small electric fan - like a pc cooling fan for instance, does pretty much the exact opposite. A mate of mine is a stove fitter and he bought one - and has been extremely impressed with it.

If you're going to get one - get a genuine one. Copies from China are all over the place and there's no back up if they fail. The distributors of the Ecofan will look after you, and they've been around for a long time now. And before anyone suggests I'm after a sale - no I don't!

Cheers,

Andy

abwsco

Wish I'd never asked lol's.

Oh and we've enough wood to keep us going for years and most of it was free as well including a 40+ year old apple tree thats seasoning along nicely:D

abwsco

Greenfires wrote: »

Ahhh - wondered when the Ecofan argument would surface here! This argument has gone on as long as Stihl vs. Husqvarna in chainsaw world, Mk5 vs. Mk6 in Transit world and pump out vs. cassette in canal boat toilet world!

Nearly everyone who has an ecofan reckons they're spot on - almost without exception. Some of the "fans" (see what I did there) have gone as far as taking various temperature and time measurements with and without the fan in operation - and they are convinced. The people who say they're crap, almost without exception, don't have one, never have and never will. Therefore Ecofans are crap. This side also say that the people who think they're great are only saying so as they're embarrassed to have "fallen for the hype"!

The whole idea of an ecofan is that it moves a large volume of air very gently. A small electric fan - like a pc cooling fan for instance, does pretty much the exact opposite. A mate of mine is a stove fitter and he bought one - and has been extremely impressed with it.

If you're going to get one - get a genuine one. Copies from China are all over the place and there's no back up if they fail. The distributors of the Ecofan will look after you, and they've been around for a long time now. And before anyone suggests I'm after a sale - no I don't!

Cheers,

Andy

Andy, thank you:) Now, can you tell me where to buy one from at a reasonable price. I lurk on GLF and saw about them on there.