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Post by quaysider on Nov 14, 2017 17:56:23 GMT
according to the digital thermometers at the front, centre (where the fire is) and rear of the boat - they DO work. Increasing the temperature by 2-3 degrees... if someone is expecting a "blast of hot air" then of course they DONT work...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2017 18:29:44 GMT
The eco fan is an excellent indicator of when it is necessary to put fuel on the fire, as you can watch the blades slowing. I suggest that function works irrefutably. As to encouraging the movement of heat, we did experiment with and without the eco fan, and discovered that the temperature in the bathroom was 2 degrees lower without the eco fan on the fire. I realise this is a marginal difference, and not conducted in any scientific way (no control for comparison etc) but supports our belief that they work. Personally I find a large whisky is good for circulating heat Rog
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Post by Saltysplash on Nov 14, 2017 19:25:50 GMT
We've lived on three canal boats now and had a stove top fan on all of them.
In our opinion, they are the perfect stove temp indicator.
That is all.
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Post by patty on Nov 14, 2017 20:40:15 GMT
Right i can input into this topic......initially i did not have ecofan and my heat detector constantly went off as all the heat from the wood burner rose en masse up the open plan stair case and set off the alarm which i whacked with a broom to dismantle....I then had a thought that just maybe having Rayburn and wood burner and no detector not terribly wise..so I goes out and buys a detector and eco fan with the thought that dispersing heat will prevent it from setting off the detector that I had to site in the same place......I made a mess of getting the other one down, in hindsight whacking with a broom not best plan. Now i hope you are all following this detailed explanation cos I'm setting out the facts..anyway the detector no longer alarms so in my humble opinion based on experiments the ecofan works...now i will vote..... So you changed the detector but you think the reason the new one doesn't go off is the ecofan? Have you tried it without the fan? no..i have this held belief...if stuff works don't change it...so much here goes wrong that when summit goes right I'm not jeopardising ..i could take fan away and the detector could go off and once its started going off it might then do it if i put the fan back....if u get my drift...whew gotta have a sit down and glass of summit now
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Post by IainS on Nov 14, 2017 21:04:13 GMT
We found it worked. On the last (shared) boat, it made a noticeable difference to the temperature half way along the boat.
The current fan on current boat isn't successful : The Ecofan is in dire need of overhaul, to the extent that it only turns when the stove is going really well, and the fan doesn't do much
They do work, but I think a computer fan mounted near the stove would work better, and wouldn't take much out of the batteries, especially if run at half speed.
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Post by Telemachus on Nov 14, 2017 21:06:38 GMT
Yup, as others have said they work really well which is why I’ve voted yes in the poll.
But “work”, defined as what exactly? Showing the temperature of the stove, when more fuel needs to be added and/or when the air vent needs adjusting - a resounding YES.
Anything to do with moving hot air around? Of course not, don’t be silly.
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Post by kris on Nov 14, 2017 21:16:03 GMT
Yup, as others have said they work really well which is why I’ve voted yes in the poll. But “work”, defined as what exactly? Showing the temperature of the stove, when more fuel needs to be added and/or when the air vent needs adjusting - a resounding YES. Anything to do with moving hot air around? Of course not, don’t be silly. i would have thought you'd have a punka wallah to waft the hot air around your boat.
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Post by Telemachus on Nov 14, 2017 21:29:42 GMT
Yup, as others have said they work really well which is why I’ve voted yes in the poll. But “work”, defined as what exactly? Showing the temperature of the stove, when more fuel needs to be added and/or when the air vent needs adjusting - a resounding YES. Anything to do with moving hot air around? Of course not, don’t be silly. i would have thought you'd have a punka wallah to waft the hot air around your boat. I don’t need a punka wallah to waft hot air around the boat. I have the power of speech.
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Post by kris on Nov 14, 2017 21:31:09 GMT
i would have thought you'd have a punka wallah to waft the hot air around your boat. I don’t need a punka wallah to waft hot air around the boat. I have the power of speech. yes you are quite verbose arent you?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2017 22:03:32 GMT
The eco fan is an excellent indicator of when it is necessary to put fuel on the fire, as you can watch the blades slowing. I suggest that function works irrefutably. Rog Yes, agreed. We have at thermometer on the flue but the speed the fan is turning is a much easier to see indicator.
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Post by thebfg on Nov 14, 2017 22:26:30 GMT
So, what is the general conclusion as someone with a diesel bubble stove I don't need to see if I need to put more fuel on.
But will it help warm up the other end of a 57 ft boat.
However I have just remembered we do have a back boiler so the central heating would be on anyway.
So I'll save me pennies and buy some paint for the engine ole
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Post by Telemachus on Nov 14, 2017 22:35:15 GMT
So, what is the general conclusion as someone with a diesel bubble stove I don't need to see if I need to put more fuel on. But will it help warm up the other end of a 57 ft boat. However I have just remembered we do have a back boiler so the central heating would be on anyway. So I'll save me pennies and buy some paint for the engine ole No, yes (to the paint).
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Post by phil70 on Nov 14, 2017 23:54:48 GMT
We had one sitting on our drip feed diesel heater on our last boat and it worked. We have one on the SF heater on our present boat and that works as well. I believe that it works by disrupting the thermal current set up by the fire and so encourages the heat to move away from the fire. Also it makes the curtains blow about. Phil
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Post by Jim on Nov 15, 2017 7:21:50 GMT
I was wearing my pretty usherrette's outfit when I posted.
However my stove won't boil a kettle with the ecofan on, take the ecofan off the water boils. Also, the room it's in has cold spots near the window,, in corners etc with no fan, even temperature with, and the heat spreads to other rooms with doors left open.
Doubters explain the difference please, scientifically, non of your emotional twaddle you trot out every time, the questions I've posted have never been answered. Who has robbed the joules?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2017 13:47:41 GMT
The dubious graphic I referred to earlier......note the word 'Simulation' I should add that I wonder how many folk place these correctly? They should be placed as far back on the stove top as possible, we can at home because the flue enters at the top rear making the stove top almost totally clear. If your flue enters in the centre of the stove top the correct positioning is more difficult to achieve.
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