I'm new to burning this year. I bought a Lopi Declaration insert. My question is whether there is any advantage to NOT running the blower at times (for example, overnight).
The following is my understanding of the functioning of the blower and thermometer. I would appreciate any corrections or confirmations. Thanks in advance:
As I understand it, the blower draws air in at the bottom, circulates it around the stove and blows it out as hot air at the top. It seems to me that this should not affect the actual burning inside the stove at all. The blower simply gets the heat out into the room instead of having it sit around the stove inside the chimney. There is a thermometer on the top left of the stove. This thermometer is outside the stove, therefore I'm assuming that it's only telling me the temperature of the air sitting on top of the stove, not the burn temperature inside. The thermometer temperature goes down slowly when I run the blower because I'm blowing the hot air out. It goes up slowly when I turn the blower off. However, the blower should not affect the burn time or inside stove temperature at all -- it's a completely separate thing. Correct?
Thanks again.
The following is my understanding of the functioning of the blower and thermometer. I would appreciate any corrections or confirmations. Thanks in advance:
As I understand it, the blower draws air in at the bottom, circulates it around the stove and blows it out as hot air at the top. It seems to me that this should not affect the actual burning inside the stove at all. The blower simply gets the heat out into the room instead of having it sit around the stove inside the chimney. There is a thermometer on the top left of the stove. This thermometer is outside the stove, therefore I'm assuming that it's only telling me the temperature of the air sitting on top of the stove, not the burn temperature inside. The thermometer temperature goes down slowly when I run the blower because I'm blowing the hot air out. It goes up slowly when I turn the blower off. However, the blower should not affect the burn time or inside stove temperature at all -- it's a completely separate thing. Correct?
Thanks again.