All,
I removed the blower from my Lopi Republic 1750 insert this morning. The blower is mounted directly below the 4" metal flange the extends out from the firebox below the door. It basically sits under that flange.
I removed the blower expecting to see the snap disc mounted to the underside of the firebox.
But no, there are no wires going out of the blower unit. It's entirely self-contained.
This means to me that the snap disk has to be inside the blower unit, which is below and in front of the firebox (one of the coolest spots around the stove). My stove sits on slate and I can tell you that the slate will barely warm even after hours of hot burning - the blower sucks cold air along it and the heat simply doesn't radiate downwards.
This explains why my fan usually won't turn on for 30 minutes, sometimes even longer.
Since there's no way I'm going to remount the snap disk on the firebox (not going to tap holes in my beautiful plate steel!), I've decided I'm going to splice the wires straight together and put the fan on a timer so I can set it for overnight.
I removed the blower from my Lopi Republic 1750 insert this morning. The blower is mounted directly below the 4" metal flange the extends out from the firebox below the door. It basically sits under that flange.
I removed the blower expecting to see the snap disc mounted to the underside of the firebox.
But no, there are no wires going out of the blower unit. It's entirely self-contained.
This means to me that the snap disk has to be inside the blower unit, which is below and in front of the firebox (one of the coolest spots around the stove). My stove sits on slate and I can tell you that the slate will barely warm even after hours of hot burning - the blower sucks cold air along it and the heat simply doesn't radiate downwards.
This explains why my fan usually won't turn on for 30 minutes, sometimes even longer.
Since there's no way I'm going to remount the snap disk on the firebox (not going to tap holes in my beautiful plate steel!), I've decided I'm going to splice the wires straight together and put the fan on a timer so I can set it for overnight.