I Recent hooked up my englander add on wood furnace and im having a problem with moving enough air through my duct system to heat my house..... i had to install i back draft damper on my wood furnace supply line to my main trunk line so i can't use the blower from my gas furnace because it will over power and close the damper when i kicks on.... anyone have similar problem? solutions? Thanks for any help
Advice on my Add On Englander Wood Furnace
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Is it the 3500? Can you post pictures of your system? When you ran into your existing furnace plenum, did you run a 90 up elbow inside the plenum?
My LP furnace is somewhat centrally located in my house. I ran the two 8" round ducts from my USSC furnace into the bottom of the main trunk on either side of the LP furnace. The blowers on the wood furnace are enough untill the temps get into the teens, then I turn the LP furnace fan onto push more air.
I wasn't sure if it would backfeed into the wood furnace, but it doesn't and works great. I think the placement of the round ducts into the trunk creates a venturi effect.
I don't know how yours is hooked up. If we had some pics that would certainly help.
I wasn't sure if it would backfeed into the wood furnace, but it doesn't and works great. I think the placement of the round ducts into the trunk creates a venturi effect.
I don't know how yours is hooked up. If we had some pics that would certainly help.
I have a direct vent gas furnace so it is on an outside wall.... My wood furnace is in the middle of the house using the existing chimney that i had lined this year....So from my wood furnace it runs like four feet up then 90s and runs like another ten feet to the main trunk line ..... but it ties into the main trunk line in the middle so the main trunk has branches coming out of it from the left and the right of where the stove supply ties into it... so i couldn't put a 90 on the inside of the main trunk line because air flow would have been missing half of the branch lines.... does that clear it up for you a little ...... my 2 year old broke my camera a few months ago so couldn't take any pics....and yes it is the 28- 3500 englander add on furnace.....
most of the add on furance dont have enough cfm's to push the heat unless thery are getting help from the other furance.The way to fix the problem is more cfm's. either a bigger blower or Vortex-PowerFans-8-Inch-Inline-Exhaust.lunk30 said:
If it can't push air, why do they sell it as such? This particular add on is advertised as "a stand alone unit" That's even on thier web site. Heck, it's in the manual.
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