been heating with wood for a long time but this is my first soapstone. My last stove was steel and I had to use the blower most of the time to keep the house warm. When I ordered my hearthstone I insisted on a blower. I get the stove top up to 400 and try and warm the hose more or faster, turn on the blower and it seems like within a few minutes the stove top is getting cool. Stove actually heats better without the blower fan on. I'm I doing something wrong or is this just how soapstone is?
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Soapstone stoves are not the best choice for rapid house warmup. They take awhile to come up to temp. Maybe take the stove top up to 500F and try?
Note that simply blowing on a standard stove top thermometer will make the indicated temperature fall. What’s happening is that you’re blowing on the bimetallic spring and cooling it so the needle drops. I bet the meter goes back up again pretty fast once you shut the blowers off. Give it a few minutes to climb back up.
New to burning so sorry if I'm completely wrong but isn't the whole idea of the blower to move heat from the stove top around the house? In other words, if it's working correctly shouldn't it be lowering your stove top temp?with mine on the stove will re as d 250 and then I can turn it off and in 2 minutes its 400 again.
The blowers aren’t that effective. Certainly not enough to cool the actual stove by anything more than barely measurable.
Real wood furnaces use huge heat exchangers with lots of surface area and flow rates 10x larger to actually strip significant heat from the appliance.
Real wood furnaces use huge heat exchangers with lots of surface area and flow rates 10x larger to actually strip significant heat from the appliance.
never been at 500dg . I think you are right by saying the blower is cooling the stove top thermometer. I have an IR I'll do some testing with.
I'm not doubting you but when I measure the stove top with an infrared and the blower going its significantly lower than it was before I put the blower on. Maybe it's a measuring device issue or maybe because of the design of my stove?
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