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paulz
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2017 11:04am
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In my cabin I have an Arrow wood stove I got used. The fire box is separate from the outside walls and a fan blows air through the chambers and out the front. I like it because it is safe, the outside never gets hot enough to ignite anything, but I don't think it warms the cabin as well as a regular stove might. Does anyone have experience with these types of stoves?
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drb777
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2017 12:50pm - Edited by: drb777
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Quoting: paulz The fire box is separate from the outside walls and a fan blows air through the chambers and out the front. I like it because it is safe,
That's the very same concept as my Vermont Casting DV gas stove. They are actually much safer, but they require the fan (and therefore a bit of noise) to distribute the heat away from the isolated combustion chamber. Hopefully your fan is variable speed and/or very quiet.
Check the specs of your specific stove, but they can exceed 80% efficiency.
Of course, overall safety and heat efficiency of an enclosed combustion chamber is also dependent upon air intake and flue design. That is, does it have concentric tubes that allow combustion air entry & pre-heating directly from the outside?
Just because the outside of the stove doesn't get all that hot, doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't efficient.
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old243
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2017 09:32am
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I have gone to hearth.com for all kinds of information on wood stoves, chimneys, forums etc. Lots of info on the various stoves. old243
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paulz
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2017 01:20pm
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Thanks guys. Yes lots of info on the hearth site. The fan in my stove is a 110v squirrel cage and my cabin is only 12v so I fitted one of those car cigarette lighter plug in accessory fans inside the squirrel cage. It does blow the heat out pretty well and doesn't draw much current. I still only have about half my cabin insulated so I'll wait and see how it does when I get the walls all finished.
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