Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:42:01 -0800
Reply-To: Pete Sicilia <pete@COFFEEPOT.ORG>
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From: Pete Sicilia <pete@COFFEEPOT.ORG>
Subject: Re: Improve comfort of Buddy Heater
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Sure thing. Here's the one I bought.
Wood Stove Fan 4 Blade Fireplace Fan for Wood Burning Stove,Heat Powered
Stove Fan Komin Log Wood Stove Accessories,Silent Operation Circulating
Warm Air(Non Electric) https://a.co/d/bEXrHFU
There are many similar ones on Amazon.
I got mine as a lightning deal for $17.
Happy hunting 🙂
Pete
On Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 10:20 AM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks Pete,
>
> Could you please post a link of the device?
>
> dan
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 8:34 AM Pete Sicilia <pete@coffeepot.org> wrote:
>
>> I just discovered this mod/upgrade too! In fact, I've been visiting some
>> friends with a wood stove and I bought them a fan as a gift (and as a
>> proof
>> of concept).
>>
>> I got one for less than $20 on Amazon and it was money well spent.
>>
>> Warmly,
>> Pete
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 4:25 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I know all you guys are familiar with Mr Heater Buddy propane heaters.
>> If
>> > you live in a humid environment, you probably detest them. If you use
>> this
>> > propane heater in winter desert or mountain conditions (like me), you
>> > probably love them. A pretty clever contraption I recently discovered
>> and
>> > bought for around $30 is what is known as a "wood stove fan". Uses the
>> > Seebeck principle: bottom end gets hot, top end is cold, in between is
>> > sort of a giant thermocouple (different metals) which produces
>> electricity
>> > which drives a little motor which turns a fan blade. Buddy Heaters
>> produce
>> > radiant heat. But a lot of heat rises above ceramic plate and just
>> floats
>> > up to ceiling; here is where the "wood stove fan" works; it takes that
>> > rising heat, and blows most of it forward! So clever YouTube folks
>> mounted
>> > one of these units on top of Buddy Heater (I mounted mine with bent
>> > coathanger pieces); and yes...it really works! Kinda magical! No
>> external
>> > electricity source; totally quiet; you can feel a breeze at 2.5 feet
>> and it
>> > disappears at 3 feet. But that's OK, moves a lot of air...now a means
>> of
>> > providing convection heating in addition to radiant heating. Will give
>> it
>> > a good test in winter desert Thanksgiving weekend. (And no....the
>> > electrical usage and the noise and hassle of Chinese Diesel Heaters is
>> not
>> > for me.)
>> >
>>
>
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