

| Subject: | Re: Improve comfort of Buddy Heater |
| From: | Pete Sicilia |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:42:01 -0800 |
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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