Room cooler with blower on high......
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Yup. I get much better results using radiant heat. It takes a little longer to warm the house up, but it stays warmer MUCH longer. I have not turned my blower on since October.
You might be feeling the draft because a fan won't cool the air.
That said I hardly use mine unless it's below 15 out then I may.
It's you.
If you were to measure the temps around the other areas of your home and you will find that the other area's are warmer than they would be without the blower.
so any tips for pushing the air into the other rooms...The problem I have is that my stairs are right at my living room where the insert is located. So most of the air goes up and heats that part of the hous really well.....But I iwould like to push the heat to the other parts of the downstairs
KindredSpiritzz
Minister of Fire
HI300 Insert here. The only time I use the blower on HIGH is if the fire gets out of control too fast (glowing top plate of stove). Otherwise blower is on low. Blower on high will cool stove off quicker than the blower on low resulting in a less efficient burn IMO.
HI300 here as well, but I've been having it on HIGH this winter. It warms up the place faster for sure. I've been looking at graphs from my wifi theremostat, and still haven't come up with anything meaningful, although I'm still leaning toward HIGH. Noise is a real drag though. I might try some LOW, now that you mention it, and especially if it ever gets warmer.
That there is a loaded statement.lol
Blower on high will allow for more heat to be forced off the stove so that more heat can be transferred to the shell of the stove.
Question is will you ever with even the biggest blower cool the stove to a point that it actually effects the burn inside it.
Just remember the bigger the temp differential the more transfer.
Just stating what I observe. When I have the stove running nice and hot, I can maintain the stove top temp in the 600 degree range for a couple hours with the blower on low and then it slowly drops off over the burn cycle. If I do this with the blower on high, the stove top temp falls to 250 within a half hour of the blower on high. I would think running the fan on high throughout the burn cycle with the stove top temp at 250, you're blowing cooler air than at 600 degrees stove top.
Right.
When you say the temp drops to 250 is that reading from a bi-metal gauge?
Blowing cooler room air over a that type of gauge will give you a false reading. Have you tried using a IR temp gun?
There will be a drop in surface temp but not that huge.
lml999
Minister of Fire
My insert projects partially into the room and I find that I can maintain temps in most of the house with no blower if the outside temp is above 30 or so degrees.
I also wonder about the high versus low alternatives -- high certainly moves more air through the house, but as others note, the stove will lose heat more quickly, perhaps keeping it from an optimal burn temp.
lml999
Minister of Fire
Could be.
Or up the chimney...Blocking plate and roxul installation are on my ToDo list.
With most flush inserts yes, but not always so with those that project nicely into the room. These units will convect pretty well without the blower running or with it on low.
Bluezx636
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I have noticed a direct correlation between running my blower on high and my secondary burn dying out much faster then if I ran my blower on a low setting. Resulting in overall lower temps because of incomplete combustion from the secondary burn tubes cooling off to fast.
I have experienced a cooling effect as the warm air from the blower moves into cooler areas of my home. I aid this process by placing a small fan at ground level blowing toward the stove. This allows warm air to move into colder areas AND cooler air to move to stove. If you continue to burn your stove and run both fans the temperatures will raise across the home thru this convection process..takes a bit. I run both fans at a low speed
GeHmTS
Feeling the Heat
about how close is your small fan to the stove? I'm generally 10 ft away from the stove.
Huntindog1
Minister of Fire
I keep my blower off. Reason being is shown in the pic on the right. I get the heat upstairs in my house better with the blower off. I figured this out 3 years ago then I saw these pics recently that showed me I wasnt crazy. LOL
First pic is with fan on and second pic is with fan off..
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First pic is with fan on and second pic is with fan off..
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GeHmTS
Feeling the Heat
Would not have thought that would happen.
I rarely run my fans but I have at real cold temps and have never seen my cat effected by them...even on high.
Huntindog1
Minister of Fire
Its does make sense the secondaries would go out sooner as its how well the temps stay up in the upper part of the stove. Its the temps that make secondaries fire.
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