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Very happy with our Hwam log burner for the last few years.
However, some folks have mentioned how happy they are with improved heat distribution after popping a thermoelectric powered fan on the top of the burner.
Appreciate your thoughts before I go and buy one.
Thanks!
Yes, it helps but some are silly money.
I think this is the one I have;
If the stove is out in the room there is no need. If it's tucked a bit snugly into a fireplace a fan helps. I've both a valiant ecofan and a £25 copy, the copy works at least as well. Got it from warrior stoves iirc
fans work not just in a hearth. Very useful things.
Get the cheapest chinese one on ebay you can find. They're very basic machines. 2x blocks of aluminium, an off-the-shelf peltier device, and hobby motor and a pressed steel blade.
£24
If you have height clearance issues in an inglenook/fireplace there are some low form factor ones you can get
I can't decide if ours makes that much difference, but it is very useful to signal how the fire is doing if nothing else.
Complete waste of money; the stove is in the room heating it up by a little radiation and a lot of convection. This is the stovist equivalent to those earthing straps people used to hang on their cars to prevent car-sickness or the flouro jackets people wear to prevent them being run over. Save your money and spend it on some Christmas booze.
Maybe a waste of money, but only a small waste of money. As above, I find it handy as a thermometer. I turn the vent down when it first starts up, and it helps judging how quickly the stove is cooling down in the evening. I guess it may help a bit in our large high-ceilinged room, to stop the hot air going straight up to the roof quite so much. But I don't really have any evidence of that. It's a cool toy anyway.
I judge when the stove is warm by how much I'm sweating while Mrs Gti sits shivering.
Great if you know how to use a stove properly.
which Hwam is it? most of them look to be specifically designed as convection wood burners. I've got one on top of my convection stove and I can't feel any difference. Wait until they come up in Aldi for £25 maybe.
What Stoner said it's his advice and recommendation I followed about 5 years ago, the fan is still going strong.
That despite some distributer popping up on here telling us our cheap ones would epxlode killing our entire family.
"Complete waste of money; the stove is in the room heating it up by a little radiation and a lot of convection. This is the stovist equivalent to those earthing straps people used to hang on their cars to prevent car-sickness or the flouro jackets people wear to prevent them being run over. Save your money and spend it on some Christmas booze."
Your post suggests you don't have one....
They work great, gets the heat across the room to the sofa rather than rising up to the ceiling.
When it gets a bit hot I'll point it towards the door so I cool down a bit (just remember to use a glove 🙂 )
Ours is a cheap one too.
Hwam 2630 is the one we have.
Von Haus branded fan off Amazon for less than £30 ordered.
I'll report back....
Thanks all.
I have one, but it seems that our stove top doesn't get hot enough to make it work. It works straight away when slapped on the Aga, but rarely reaches hot enough to make it spin on the burner. Perhaps it's too well insulated...
That doesn't sound right, there's no point insulating a stove- you want the heat in the room or its going up the chimney.
After a while thinking they were useless I have changed my mind, before we got it you could feel a marked thermocline when you stood up and its much less evident now. Also you can feel it pushing the heat out forward with your hand in front.
Cheap one here
Perhaps your stoves too big, and you're not running it hard enough Chipps? agree with sweepy re insulation....
I picked one up in Aldi on Tuesday and used it last night for the first time. I am pleased with the results as it seemed to heat the room and house more than just the stove, which is a Morso S11 convector.