Combustion blower

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boondockin

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Apr 17, 2007
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Ontonagon, MI
I have a wood boiler that I fabricated a couple of years back. It heats my house but is fairly inefficient and has a long reaction time. I built it with a electronic damper to utilize the natural draft for combustion air. I am considering adding a small blower in-line with the damper to give it a little more kick.

Any thoughts on how effective this will be? Any recommendations for the blower capacity(CFM)? Where can I buy one?

Thanks in advance,

Tom
 
I have a small homemade tube boiler that i'm still tuning. I hahave a small squirrel cage fan into 1 1/2 " pipe onto the bottom. It will raise the watertemp 15* in 10 ninutes and cuts down on smoke at the same time. I like the electric damper idea mine is manual.
 
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