Tesen
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Nice setup Hedge, close to what I have (digital camera is charging atm). It isn't a bad stove for the price I agree, just don't like the front damper.
We had some back draft issues the first year we installed it; there were a lot of weather inversions in the area and my house is very old and suffers from the stack effect. We were burning mostly cheap (read: free) coal at the time and the stove was not doing so well. I decided to purchase an exhausto exhaust fan for the top of the tripple wall flue for it and it works well. Only when we have severe weather do we use the exhaust fan or when we start it dead cold (i.e. when we've been away).
We also have the draft inducer fan installed as well (works semi okay, we hardly use it though, since once we have the stove all lit and hot, we choke it down and it does extremely well at maintaining a nice temp).
This years project (apart from a new kid getting more wood etc) is going to be a) Install some kind of sensor (pressure sensor? Air flow?) so if whatever we're measuring drops below a certain point, the exhaust fan will kick on and b) purchase the rest of the 12V deep cycle batteries and generator. The plan is, if we're sleeping, we are away that if the juice goes off the blowers, exhaust fan and draft fan will automatically kick over to an emergency backup. This means a) We stay warm, b) if something happens to cause a major negative pressure in the house we won't wake up dead (that'd suck ). I'd fit an alarm to it as well, to inform us of such a condition so we can check on things.
We're in the city my wife calls me paranoid - but I hate being without juice during the winter And as for backdrafting, again I'd hate to wake up dead ;-)
Tes
We had some back draft issues the first year we installed it; there were a lot of weather inversions in the area and my house is very old and suffers from the stack effect. We were burning mostly cheap (read: free) coal at the time and the stove was not doing so well. I decided to purchase an exhausto exhaust fan for the top of the tripple wall flue for it and it works well. Only when we have severe weather do we use the exhaust fan or when we start it dead cold (i.e. when we've been away).
We also have the draft inducer fan installed as well (works semi okay, we hardly use it though, since once we have the stove all lit and hot, we choke it down and it does extremely well at maintaining a nice temp).
This years project (apart from a new kid getting more wood etc) is going to be a) Install some kind of sensor (pressure sensor? Air flow?) so if whatever we're measuring drops below a certain point, the exhaust fan will kick on and b) purchase the rest of the 12V deep cycle batteries and generator. The plan is, if we're sleeping, we are away that if the juice goes off the blowers, exhaust fan and draft fan will automatically kick over to an emergency backup. This means a) We stay warm, b) if something happens to cause a major negative pressure in the house we won't wake up dead (that'd suck ). I'd fit an alarm to it as well, to inform us of such a condition so we can check on things.
We're in the city my wife calls me paranoid - but I hate being without juice during the winter And as for backdrafting, again I'd hate to wake up dead ;-)
Tes