Indeed, it will be a much appreciated improvement. I can't wait to do the install. Should be wonderful to simply flip the switch for the fan, get the fire going, and walk away knowing that the fan will feed oxygen to the fire for as long as necessary, and shut down when it would otherwise be simply taking cold air from the outdoors, using the GARN's hot water to heat that air, and returning the warmed air to the atmosphere! I want to heat my home with the BTUs from the wood, I don't want to heat WISCONSIN.
I have been heating Wisconsin for 8 winters, using the EMPYRE 450 we put into service in 2002. It has served us well, I am just very pleased to have a wood burner which will be SO much more efficient, and will not be adding unburned hydrocarbons, soot, creosote to the air.
We still heat our uninsulated 2,000 sq ft, 120 yo farm house with wood we burn in the EMPYRE 450.
We are now heating our Barn (soon to be Barn/Home) with our GARN 2000 WHS.
The EMPYRE puts out a great deal of smoke which carries over one mile downwind to our next two neighboring farms.
The GARN puts out water vapor, which dissipates before it reaches the full height of the barn!
AND.........the GARN will likely use 1/2 to 1/3 the amount of wood to heat the 10,000 sq ft of (well-insulated) Barn/Home that the EMPYRE now uses to heat the 2,000 sq ft of (uninsulated) farm house.
It ought to be a pleasure to be in Wisconsin next winter!!
By the way, what was the idiocy to which you refer in your signature?
Hankovitch in SW Wisconsin