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Scottish_Jimmy

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New to the forum, been burning wood for almost 7 seasons.

Our last stove just got replaced under warranty due to many defects. It was a Timberwolf 2300. We just replaced it with a Napoleon S9.

My question is this, our last two stoves a Napoleon 1450 (was 20 years old when we replaced it) and the Timberwolf 2300 both had blowers with convection decks on top that helped move the hot air. Out new Napoleon S9 does not. The blower seems to blow threw the grates upwards rather than forwards. Will a stove top fan be the best way to go to move the hot air through the house? Will a stove top fan move the air as much as a blower?

Any S9 owners, how do you like the stove?
 

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A metal convection deck could be added to divert the air over the stove top. Heat powered stove top fans generally do not move as much air as the factory blower.
 
Although I have a different stove, there was a huge increase of forward heat when I added the factory convection deck to mine, I definitely understand were your coming from. If your stove brand doesn't have an optional deck maybe you could look possible setting up a ground fan to blow towards your stove at a low speed, that might be enough to mix your air up coming straight out the top of your unit, or a ceiling fan.
 
Before I had a convection deck I used an Eco-Fan on the stove top and an inexpensive window type fan on the floor down the hall to push cold air from the back bedrooms along the floor towards the stove.

If you have an eco-fan and a box fan, try it. If you don't, save your dough for the convection deck. I still use the box/window fan witht he convection deck, but I wouldn't spend the dough on a eco-fan ($130 around here), out that money towards a convection deck instead.
 
My stove is recessed part way into a fireplace. An eco-fan on the stove top seemed to do very little to move air. What has done a great job is a fan on the floor, to one side of the stove, that blows cool floor air to the rear of the fireplace and moves warmth up and over the stove top back into the room. It serves to amplify the existing natural convective flow.
 
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