How many of you DO NOT need electricity to run youre stove?

jlow said:

Our EQ as you can see is in the middle of our family room. It faces north and the heat is drawn towards the front of the house and then rises to head upstairs. If the thermostat in the kitchen is 75 our bedroomupstairs is 69-70. If I need to use the fan (which can be battery operated ) it would be early morning to start the movement of the heat. The majority of the time the heat moves nicely without any added boost.

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Very nice looking stove room!

Ray

None needed by us -other than to empower the ceiling fan.

I can go w/o electricity, infact we had an outtage one time- in the winter. Was I had a wood stove. The Regency has a blower on it but I harly ever if ever use it.............

SolarAndWood said:

Wet1 said:

SolarAndWood said:

Below 20, the blower is on but I suppose we could get away without it. Just wouldn't choose to.

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Do you really notice much of a difference with the blower on? After running mine both ways on and off for a while, I can't say I really notice enough of a difference to bother running it much any more... if just seems to be wasting electricity and creating noise while moving little air.

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Big difference. Reduces burn time by about a third and I am confident the heat is not going up the stack. N60 reported similar. I agree, however, if you don't need the additional output the noise and electricity consumption does not make a lot of sense.

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With the BKPI I do notice a huge difference with the blow on, Big heat comes out of that insert with the fan on. so much, we don't run the fan in the warmer weather, 20 degrees and up it a oven in the house. Now your saying that by not using the fan it prolong the burn times? I know that the fan really bring the cat temp gauge down but as soon as you shut the fan off it comes right back up. I wonder if I could get more heat out of the insert if I took the surround off on the insert? I am running a soft block off rather than a steel plate. Heat really hasn't been a issue with the insert, we do run it at night with the fan off.

sued to have a blower with the Jumbo Moe before it wore out.

Blower doesn't and to the output of your stve but can help get the convection started.

Currently with my freestanding Country Canyon I don't use one.

gerry100 said:

sued to have a blower with the Jumbo Moe before it wore out.

Blower doesn't and to the output of your stve but can help get the convection started.

Currently with my freestanding Country Canyon I don't use one.

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huh?

BeGreen said:

gerry100 said:

Used to have a blower with the Jumbo Moe before it wore out.

Blower doesn't add to the output of your stove, but can help get the convection started.

Currently with my freestanding Country Canyon, I don't use one.

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Translation above. Typos are funny sometimes.

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OMG too funny! Thanx for the translation!! I just couldn't make sense of that and I can usually figure it out... Perhaps you could look into a career working for Google as a jibberish translator lol...


Ray

Lanning said:

Now your saying that by not using the fan it prolong the burn times? I know that the fan really bring the cat temp gauge down but as soon as you shut the fan off it comes right back up. I wonder if I could get more heat out of the insert if I took the surround off on the insert?

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I find that burn time is 1/3 less when running the blower. I assume this is because the tstat is compensating for pulling the heat off the stove. This is with full loads of mixed hardwoods and generally higher tstat settings. Don't know much about inserts other than chucking wood in the smoke dragon at the camp makes the house warmer. Seems reasonable that removing the surround might encourage heat into your house that may otherwise be lost.

got 900,sq ft upstairs a jotul 602 in my living room ,got my oil bill tuesday,62 bucks for 40 days last year wqs 450,for 27 days,hydro aint squat.man i love this wood burning gig//////

One of the main reasons I went with wood vs. pellet, wood boiler, etc. was the ability to heat the house easily in a power outage . . . sure you can still run the equipment with a generator or back-up battery . . . but I'm a pretty simple guy and like the simple solutions.