We have used one in our cabin on the wood stove for years and it is
amazing.  Someone makes a similar device you can use to charge your phone.
Just don't lay the phone on the top of the stove or Mr Buddy!

With a breeze of warm air,

Adam

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 7:34 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.)
> >
>