I'm new here. Replacing a 21 year old Whitfield quest pellet stove. 2 stoves I'm looking at are the Harman p43 and the Heatilator ps50. My current Whitfield puts very little radiant heat to the sides, I can touch them. Because of that, my 75 gallon fish tank is next to the stove, diagonal to the front corner. Its out of the path of the air flow, but about 18" between the stand and stove corner. Ive read that the Harman can radiate a lot of heat. I like that because the walls behind it are slate tile, and used to hold head from the old wood stove. The Whitfield puts almost zero heat into the walls. (corner installation). My concern is the fish tank. Some radiant heat on the tank would be good, as I keep my house around 68 when we are home and 62 when we are gone, and the tank is heated to 82. Neither the tank or stove can be easily moved. So opinions from those who have either of these 2 stoves, how hot they can get from the front corner, but out of air flow path.
Harman p43 vs heatilator ps50 radiant heat question
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MikeNH
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Well, I have a Harman P61a and a Heatilator PS35, so different sizes of the same stoves you are taking about. The Harman puts off a lot of radiant heat. We were impressed with how much. Both the top and the sides. The PS35 puts off no radiant heat on top and some on the sides but nothing like the Harman
dhall28
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The harmans p series of stoves have a single piece of metal between the fire and the outside of the stove so it gets hot, while the heatilator stoves have fire, metal, air gap, and then another sheet of metal. I know you said it would be nice to have the radiant heat but for any reason if it was too much for the fish tank the P series stoves can get side shields if I remember correctly.
MikeNH
Burning Hunk
Are you talking about the sides? My Heatilator sides have no air gap. It's one layer of steel between the inside of the firebox and outside the stove. Harman sides are similar though I installed heat shields and they do help with radiant heat out the sides.
dhall28
Burning Hunk
Yes you are right I was thinking of a different stove design, it is only one sheet of metal for both the harmans and the heatilators, my bad.
Well, change of plans anyways. Went back into the dealer that sells the heatilator to talk to them about heat from the sides, and they was selling a 3 year old demo enviro m55 cast iron in perfect conditon for $2450. I fell in love after watching amd listning to it burn and couldent pass it up for the price.
Looks like an answer. Congrats. Looking forward to a thread on the installation.
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