Hello all ! Very first post so here goes.
Let me start by saying how much I love this site!! I never realised how ignorant I was about burning wood until I got on here. How hard can it be right? After a small chimney fire last November I found you guys and began educating myself......man what a difference, but that is a story for later.
I have an Englander 13 that runs like a champ heating the upstairs of our 2K sq. ft. home (about 1200 w/ an open loft) The problem is, I seem to be switching the blower on and off more often than I want. The stove loves to cruise at about 500 deg. stovetop and about 350 deg. on single wall stovepipe (about 18" up). That is with the noisy but tolerable blower running at low speed. If I shut it off the stove top will climb to 650 or 700. People on here say that they can cruise at that temp all day long and I believe them, however I will be building an alcove around this stove come spring and want to dissipate the excess heat, plus it is sooo much more efficent if I can move that real hot air until the temp is back down around 450 or 500 (stovetop). I would like to control that blower motor with maybe a thermocouple magnetically attached to the stovetop and run to a thermostat that the blower will plug into, then plug the thermostat into the wall. Just cant find anything that will do the trick. I would obviously need to control both set points. Any ideas?
Also, we will both sleep better at night with this set up once we start doing overnight burns again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Let me start by saying how much I love this site!! I never realised how ignorant I was about burning wood until I got on here. How hard can it be right? After a small chimney fire last November I found you guys and began educating myself......man what a difference, but that is a story for later.
I have an Englander 13 that runs like a champ heating the upstairs of our 2K sq. ft. home (about 1200 w/ an open loft) The problem is, I seem to be switching the blower on and off more often than I want. The stove loves to cruise at about 500 deg. stovetop and about 350 deg. on single wall stovepipe (about 18" up). That is with the noisy but tolerable blower running at low speed. If I shut it off the stove top will climb to 650 or 700. People on here say that they can cruise at that temp all day long and I believe them, however I will be building an alcove around this stove come spring and want to dissipate the excess heat, plus it is sooo much more efficent if I can move that real hot air until the temp is back down around 450 or 500 (stovetop). I would like to control that blower motor with maybe a thermocouple magnetically attached to the stovetop and run to a thermostat that the blower will plug into, then plug the thermostat into the wall. Just cant find anything that will do the trick. I would obviously need to control both set points. Any ideas?
Also, we will both sleep better at night with this set up once we start doing overnight burns again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.