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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: MAK on December 13, 2011, 01:53:39 pm

Title: wood burning stove with rads
Post by: MAK on December 13, 2011, 01:53:39 pm

We are running a wood burning stove that heats 8 radiators ( Hunter Herald). Does anyone have any experience of the thermostat control that can be fitted to the stove to change the flow of air into it ( thus changing the rate that wood burns) ?
I guess that the heat output varies with type and quantity of fuel and how much O2 flows into the stove. Given that we can add O2 thru bottom, top and thermostatically controlled vent there are a few variables but if anyone can suggest their preferred method of use it will help us on the learning curve of "stove use". Dam cold in the house today as the gales is blowing thru the dog flap and cracks that I did not know we had.

Any tips?

Cheers Martin

Title: Re: wood burning stove with rads
Post by: DJ_Chook on December 13, 2011, 02:41:49 pm

We used to have a similar system.(Franco Belge with gravity feed radiators. The air intake value was utterly unreliable if it was windy. The windier it was, the harder the fire sucked regardless of what the value was doing. We took it off in the end and used a manual 3 position valve on either open/half way/closed.