NC-30 - Fan or no Fan

1st Thread. Glad to finally get one on here.

I'm installing an NC-30 this Summer and it came with a free room fan. How many are running with the fan? How many wish they were running it.

I've got the wall open so I can run an outlet to the floor if I want to run the fan, seems kind of loud. Pro's Con's?

Im heating from a basement... So I agree with Pen 100%.

The 30 is a heat monster.. But there are times I may want a little more

For free (blower).... It cant hurt. A couple hrs of your labor to run an outlet. As for the noise. I run a pellet stove (or pellet furnace) and that one blower cant be any louder. You will soon drown out the noise and look at the savings in your Gas/Oil/LP/Elec bill.

Welcome to the gang... Looking forward to pics after install. BrotherBart will be around with your shirt when the pics come

Install it it is. Pics to follow as soon as she is in. Thanks for the input.

All 30s come with a blower now, right?

My 30 has no blower and is situated in a side room outside the usual square of a center-hall colonial. The tower fan standing outside the door of the stove room pushes heat throughout the house without much trouble.

I've often wondered if a blower on the stove might help, but I've never wondered enough to spend any money to find out.

Ours came with one when we purchased it last September. I thought all of them come with blowers now.

I use the blower on ours (on low) when it is very cold out. I find it really circulates the heat well to the furthest areas of the house.

I use my blower when heating the cabin from a cold occupancy or if the outside temp really drops. Only downsides are noise (unless you keep the speed down) and wood consumption. Since it's putting out heat quicker, mine doesn't get as long a burn.

My 17-VL came with a fan (Model AC-16, good for 17-VL, 13 and 12...not sure about the 30). I installed it, ran it for a few hours then took it off due to noise and my wife not liking an electrical wire being right behind the stove. I don't miss it. Anyway, it's in the box and just on a shelf. If someone wants it they can have it for $10 plus shipping. Otherwise it'll go on eBay in the fall.

**Edit**
I should note that we do use a tower fan sometimes when we need to really move heat or when I overload the stove and want to cool it down quicker.

Thanks. I thought that was the case. The 30 will be placed in a large walk-in fireplace. I intend to use the blower to make it a little more efficient moving the heat out of the fireplace.

Congrats on your new stove look forward to the pics! Welcome to the forum too!

Ray

Bart sure is doing a lot of stove related buying this off season. Kind of surprising since last year he was spreading the word that his wood burning days might be ending soon and that he would never buy another wood stove again since his 80 100 200 year old knees won't let him.

Then, blammo, he's buys another 30 and he's replacing his burnt out blower on the original 30. I suspect that the gruff, old man act that Bart puts on, is just that. An act. He's actually the grandson of Bob England. 25 at the oldest, I say.

Yep Bar, it's all poppycock!


Adams, good luck with the 30...you are gonna love that beast!
Don't forget pics...or yur shirt will be revoked!

I firmly believe the shirt should be held in reserve until we see pics.
The blower on our old Ashley finally got way too noisy, and I couldn't find a new one that fit, so I pulled it and put a tower air purifier pointing into the stove room.
Even on low, it gets the warm air to the other end of the house.
When the blower was working (well, technically it still does), it did a great job moving air.

If not to move heat for the house, the fan makes a for a very effecient means of calming down a runnaway stove. Give it 10 minutes and the top temp will drop 200 degrees. I use the fan during colder temps if I could not keep up, or to cool down the stove if she is purring a bit too loud.

We've had the blower discussion many times and I too am a fan of the fan particularly if you burn in a convection stove. The heat transfer is greatly enhanced and your efficiency will go up in my opinion. The blower will also help keep the heat more uniform and reduce the overheated feeling when you sit in the same room as the stove. On the T-5 the stove is comfortable to be near with the exception of the front which is a serious source of radiant "bake your face off" type of heat.

Ray

Nothing wrong with that. I buy all my wood cut and split. It just makes sense financially for me.

Tell me about it. I have three stoves sitting here.

I am seriouisly thinking it's time to sell the splitter and saw. Sitting here looking at 10 years of wood stacked and waiting for their moment in the stove. Then I wonder what I would do when a giant Oak or Hickory is laying in field across from my house. Dunno.