I know what radiant heat is and I know what convection heat is - but when I read about some of these wood stoves, I had a preconceived idea that convective wood stoves always used a fan to force the air around the stove and into the room and in doing so - not much radiant heat.
What are some of the convective wood stoves out there and how do they differ from radiant stoves. Is a fan always required?
Case in point - the PE Alderlea T series woodstoves. They are steel stoves with a cast iron jacket. Do they radiate? Can you warm yourself like a radiant stove standing to the side of it or does the cast iron jacket serve as a heat shield - holding the hot air in such a way that it causes air movement around the stove and out the front (with a fan option too)?
Are the Englander stoves convection too or radiant? It seems like I saw one of these stoves and they had what appeared to be heat sheilds around the sides and back - or at least I thought they were heat shields or were these really wraps designed to cause convection heating?
Thanks!
Bill
What are some of the convective wood stoves out there and how do they differ from radiant stoves. Is a fan always required?
Case in point - the PE Alderlea T series woodstoves. They are steel stoves with a cast iron jacket. Do they radiate? Can you warm yourself like a radiant stove standing to the side of it or does the cast iron jacket serve as a heat shield - holding the hot air in such a way that it causes air movement around the stove and out the front (with a fan option too)?
Are the Englander stoves convection too or radiant? It seems like I saw one of these stoves and they had what appeared to be heat sheilds around the sides and back - or at least I thought they were heat shields or were these really wraps designed to cause convection heating?
Thanks!
Bill