Honest Stove Fan Review | Do they WORK? 

Add room ceiling fan blow heat from up high down have had this set up in my last house works great

I had a tiny electric heater that couldnt heat up the room . I had a box fan and put it behind forcing more air. And the room is toasty. It literally went from being like a fridge to nice and warm so take what you will from that.

Mpravo ! From Greece you made a real factory ! My english are not good but I understand you !!! A real enginear ! Archimides !

Remember, in the winter, pull warmer air up. In the summer, reverse the fan and push the air down. If you try to push hot air down, against its natural tendency to rise, it will take more work and results in cooling the air. It looks to me like you've got bricks stacked right up against the back of the stove. If that's true, don't do that. You need air surrounding the stove, so that it can be heated and rise. Don't restrict it.

I have found out from my personal experience that a slow moving Ceiling fan works best. I have 4 oil lanterns that I use with my Ceiling fan and the Ceiling fan circulates the heat from the 4 oil lanterns very well and I'm talking about a medium size 19ft x 14ft room roughly with the door entrance cracked open about 1 inch for ventilation. The Ceiling fan also does even better on extremely sub freezing temperature days when using my kerosene heater and entrance door cracked slight open for ventilation.

Hi guys it was great seeing yous. Glad to see yous have fans now...once the walls have heat in them again it won't take long to heat up...it will take time. Maybe find a log company or find falling down trees and cut them for next year, as they will have to dry out...xxx

I've had mine for 5 years. Works great on my wood stove. I just put a shelf on my buddy heater and now I use the fan on the buddy heater and it works great as well.

looking forward to the video you're making.

there is a little tiny camp stove, like heat 1 cup of water small, that you heat w wood and you can charge your phone,

Since it’s a old house just for the winters I would put plastic over the windows to try and keep cold air out . That’s what my grandmother would do every winter then take it off during summer .

You actually could charge your phone if you wanted a nerdy project. You’ll need some TECs thermoelectric couplers (I think). This video explains it a bit (it’s nerdy) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YWUhwmmZa7A.html. They are what’s on those fans. And am sure they’re only designed to make air circulate around a room to avoid hot spots, they won’t blow hot air as such.

Those are junk I sent mine back got Eco fans spent $200 for one fan worth every cent. Amazon took the other one back no questions good riddance bad rubbish

They definitely work, I have two of them 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I'm going to purchase one of these fans, my home is well insulated and the wood burning fireplace insert has hot air outflow venting in which I can set the fan above this vent to push that already hot air better through the room.

Adding to the comment below, they work via a component called 'Peltier' plates. When you apply power to the two wires it will heat one side and cool the other OR you can switch that around and HEAT one side of the plate and it generates power to, in this case drive a small motor.. and yes you can get and make these into phone chargers you place onto a hot surface (there are numerous YT vids on how-to) pretty neat!

I put a powerful 12 inch mains fan pointed at the stove, it heats the room better than without, its a strong fan mind.

After using one for about five years, I'm skeptical they improve heating, at least in our small, open-plan house. Often times the place seems warmer throughout without the fan. My suspicion is that the fan may be cooling off the top of the stove, which is supposed to get very hot and radiate. Can't prove that. As another observed, I agree that a ceiling fan has a greater impact, forcing heat down and around.

I think it's more of a conversation piece than anything

Should point them at the chimney to blow the heat off it and into the room. The chimney pipe is on it's way to taking heat out of the house anyway.

We have one of those little fans, it works greats, we also have ceiling fans.

I believe the fans should be on the back of the stove so they blow the warm air across from the stove

The fan will by no means generate or get the oven to generate more heat. It will only circulate air in the room. The fan is meant to circulate the air in the room so you have a more uniform temperature throughout the room instead of hot air accumulating up under the roof and cold air at the floor where you are residing, mixing the hotter air from up under the roof with the colder air from the floor in order to get something in between both places. To test it, place two thermometers in the room, one 2 to 3 feet above the floor and the other one a foot below the roof and see whether using the fan will give more equal temperature. If it does get more equal with the fan than without, it works, if not, it does not work. Also have in mind that the fan gets its electricity to the fan motor from the difference in temperature between the fan's foot (absorbed from the stove) and the cooling fins (cooled by the air drawn through the fan). It will therefore spin faster the hotter the oven is and the cooler air it sucks.

I paid $200 for mine and I've also seen about 20 of these at various friends' cabins, and unfortunately they don't blow very much at all. The concept is great but in reality they barely move much air at all. To see it push a piece of paper you have to hold the sheet of paper basically right in front of the fan.

You seem to have a double-walled chimney pipe. that thermometers don't work on those. Put it instead on the flat top. For the double-walled pipe, you need type where you drill holes and put in probe stick inside about 12 inches up from stovetop.

You need outside combustion air, that stove suck all the heat out the chimney through the air intake that's from your room

I'm looking at these for passive cooling for my supercharger between races 😅

Hi, thanks for the video, I hope the weather starts to warm up soon. I missed my regular dose of my favourite farmily. I will look forward to your vlog tomorrow :-)

You should start your fire in the morning en this for several days, the bricks/walls will warm up en you will be kozy :) greetings from Belgium

I didn't read all the comments so I apologize if someone else is already said this. If you point the fans where they blow across your exhaust pipe they will dissipate more of the heat from the pipe into the room.

The fans aren’t supposed to blow hot air. People think they aren’t working because they are blowing cold air. Their purpose is circulating the heat from the stove not blowing hot air. If you are thinking of something that blows hot air then that would be a kerosene heater

For whatever it’s worth. I have owned a Heritage Hearthstone soapstone stove for 18 years. The company claims 65% efficiency. I think that is marketing bullshit. I could have bought an attached fan for about $350 which rated poorly on reviews. My wife suggested taking a cheap table top fan ( which we already own) and point it at the stove. It was amazing. My basement living room, which barely got up to 70* now gets up to close to 80*. The warm air flows up the stairwell and keeps the main floor heated. More heat and less wood usage all because of pointing a room fan at the stove

I have a similar situation with just one fan, but I face the fan to blow cold room air against the hot 🔥 chimney. I think it works better.

Yes put back more if your gona cook on top. But it looks nice.

You can trim your nails on the fans as an added bonus

In the late 1800s they had chistmas decorations that were made from brass that moved from heat of small candells .

For phone charging all you need is a small solar panel. Cheaper that those motors.

You need to get a couple of ceiling fans to move the hot air from the ceiling and get everything warm.

It sounds like you do a little something everyday to stop the heat from escaping. Eventually you will get to where you need to be. Hopefully spring will arrive there soon and the cold won't be a problem.

As long as the walls are not insulated, it is normal not to have enough heat. And anyway the stove is too small for a kitchen and a living room.

I really hoped for a proper review but all I got was daft music noise.

I see you have piles of bricks on one side and at the rear this prevents convection (rising air) all sides should be clear to get maximum heat from the burner.

I have 1 fan on my Morso 06 stove. I would say probably at least15% improvement. However these fans arent super-reliable and I had to buy a new Pelltier device for mine after 18 months and also the motor had stiffened up and needed some penetrating lube to get it going properly again.

I dunno if it works or not. Mine never spins that fast, but it spins at a good rate. I mostly use it to judge if the fire is hot enough or not from across the room. Slow spin, add wood. Fast spin it's ok. As someone else mentioned, they seem to be effective in helping dry out wood on top of your stove. I always have a few pieces drying up there.

They defintely do aid in circulating the warm air , IMO their main strength is after initial start up . I think they make heating a room up happen slightly faster , and as they cost nothing to run its a result .

Cool review... thanks!

Any time you move air, you cool it. Hot air rises where it will then stay close to the ceiling before cooling enough to fall down towards the floor, before being heated enough to rise again. One way to work with the natural convection cycle is to have a slow spinning ceiling fan that will encourage the hot air to get to the ceiling faster. That will push the hot air that is already there down towards the floor which should be warmer than what would fall naturally. It works better with smooth ceilings, as beams in the ceiling tend to make air dams that limit the hot air spreading across the room. The other thing you can do is to make sure that the fire box gets it's combustion air from an outside vent. Otherwise the fire box is using your heated air from inside the house and throwing it up the chimney. Lastly, in the room you want to be the most comfortable in, you need to insulate the outside wall. Brick walls will absorb a lot of your heat. It will absorb more heat than you could ever put into it. Unless your brick wall is facing a southern exposure where you can turn them into a solar collection wall, it's best to insulate them. You can do that with rigid insulation glued to the brick wall and then lathed and plastered over the insulation or you can frame a 2 X 4 wall in front of it and then insulate it normally. Remember 30% of your heat is lost through the ceiling. The more insulation up there the better off you'll be. The next big heat loss is through doors and windows, about 20%. Then it gets lost through the walls. The floors also remove heat, but the way you did your floors should pretty much limit that loss. We all know that heat radiates, but then, so does cold. Try closing your eyes and stand in the middle of the room. Hold your palm up and wet it. Then slowly turn around and just by the cold you feel on your palm you should be able to tell when you're facing the outside wall. Now walk toward it and as you get closer, you should feel the cold even more. Then turn around and face the inside of the room, your palm will feel warmer. Insulating the outside wall will create the thermal break needed to stop that cold from radiating into the house.

I have one. These are to look at and admire. They do nothing to improve your home's heat distribution. A big ceiling fan is the way to go.

Dude, to get the most out of that stove you need another strongly built (wielded 1/4” steel) box above the stove with about 9, 2” steel tubes (again 1/4” or something close if you get stock in metric sizes) wielded horizontally…back to front. This reheater will capitalize on all of that heat going straight outside. Then put a fan sucking if mounted in front or blowing if mounted in back. This will actually overheat you brick structure such that you will have to install a variable intake limiter to reduce the fuel burn rate. Put it on legs so that the reheating box (with the tubes) is about 2.5’ above the stove top. This will drastically reduce your wood consumption and almost triple your heat output simultaneously. If you don’t wield neatly you could find a guy in your berg who can fab this up in about 2-3 hours. Then you just need to paint it with height temperature enamel from a rattle can and get some more stove pipe and reroute your exhaust. Best,

Haha your house looks like my house and you look like my partners son born. Thanks for info, i think i try them out cause cost is low and electricity is not needed.

Of course they work, it's a stove fan it just needs to move some air... Not a fan to cool you down by blowing hard XD

I have a twin rota fan and it certainly does work.

Convected heat rises whichever direction you blow it, so it all just ends up on the ceiling anyway along with the heat that rises directly above the fire, and as the moving efficiency of these fans is barely enough to push air a few inches, it goes nowhere but up. If you want heat directed horizontally across the room in a straight line however, you need to point the door glass in that direction and let radiation warm that cool corner or dry your laundry. But stoves are fixed, so whatever you want to heat has to be moved in line with the glass - or open door - instead.

I didn't see the fans blowing your hair back like fabio! so they must be like mine.i feel no air flow at all from it.is this just mine or can you actually feel air movement let me know maybe mine is just expensive junk.

With or without the faens. Did you feel anything at all ? Now thinking about the pread of the heat.

1:20 you might want to get several thermometers and put them in different locations on the stove

They work good or mine did the hotter they get the faster they turn

Hang up a blanket by your leaky door. That will stop a lot of wind from coming through.

the music gets too loud on your video and then voice is too quiet ... good video

Want to watch all your series but don’t know what sequence they come in . I would like to start at No 1 the beginning and work through xx

To be clear there’s non engine, right? It’s full convection powered

Hahaha I mean it in a good way you and your family stay safe

Cold air or hot air

no fans are needed the heat from the stove circulates the air ! all you may need is a way to pull the cold air from the floor ! that will not heat unless it is circulated ! it is simple thermal dynamics people ( heat rises ? cold drops ? ) !

Will this also work on a gas stove?

How much electricity could be produced in this way?

Dont even have a wood stove or fire place. Not sure why I watched this video but it was cool

They work far better on a wood burning stove instead of a wood fire place. Insulation works both ways for keeping heat in or out.

Hola buenisimo como funciona el ventilador?

I have found these fans to be useful for one thing.. quickly drying wood that has snow/ice on it. I place the wood on top of firebrick, on top of the stove and point that fan at it. Outside of 18" I think there pretty useless.

We also want to buy one and I did some research on it and found that it is better to place it behind / next to the pipe, not in front of it.

You should really do a better job on lighting your fire. Doing it the 'Scandinavian way' as we call it here. Pile your logs, (in alternating directions if you wish), add some smaller wood on your logs and put some kindle and your fire starter on top. So kindle goes on the top, not the bottom. You will burn a nice fire, and because your kindle burns really well, right from the start, it will draw in more air, get your flow going en burn your fire with hardly any smoke coming out of you chimney!

These fans the question is do they blow forward like fan toward room. We had such toy at home, where you light up candle at it starts spin making nice sounds also. Simply hot air is going up and fan spin, but what it is spinning doesnt mean it blows forward. Those radiators behind fan does only one thing stealing heat energy from stove, which can hold heat for longer period after got heated. Fan well question does it blow?To test you need paper trying with fans and without fans. In my opinion hot air going up hits fan it works like running water, fan spins, but water dont go forward. And even if it goes a little forward it immediatly goes up to same place stove is heating, better option is to put aliuminium rad near exhale tube to steal heat from fumes, but not from stove!

59°F and you're using stove? That's short sleeve weather, great temp to work outside here...lol

Our ( I actually put my by accident) but anyhow, we have got our new fire place luckily with enough room above the stove too put a fan on top of OUR new eco stove.. Cant wait too see if it works... I said my at first because I'm in charge of maintenance, glass cleaning emptying Ash out and find the wood.. But I find a stove therapeutic in so many ways.. ❤️ Thanks for sharing..

The fan doesn’t throw any heat get a blower motor

Several other people have already pointed out that the fans work best at the back of the stove. The principal of the operation is a bimetal element at the bottom that functions by the temperature differential between the bottom being heated and cooling the top side via the cooling ribs above it! Place the fan on the perimeter of the stove directing it towards the centre will give the best results.

Lol you want to charge your phone from the fire I suggest purchasing a BioLite stove it's got a thermocoupler built into it to turn the fire into electricity , nice fans though use them in my hot tent for winter camping, don't put them Ever in front of the pipe though unless you want to turn them into trash lol .

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You clearly do not understand how this device works. In there is a thermo electric element. The temperature difference between the bottom and the top creates electricity. So you feed heat to the bottom, therefore on the top you must get rid of the heat, thats were the cooling ribs are for. The electric motor spins the fan and creates an airflow, thus taking away the heat and maintain the temperature difference between top and bottom. The fan is mainly there to circulate the air in the room. If you put ice on the cooling ribs while the stove is on you will see that the fan will rotate much faster, because of the increased temperature difference.

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Why u have bricks behind stove does it help give off more heat

Actually the pipe that goes out is very close to the stove and you guys throwing out all the heat. I am sure if you manage to increase the length of outgoing pipe you'll find your room more warm. From Afghanistan

Just a question. Why are you screaming continiously instead of normal speaking? What's that with your generation? Why are you screaming all the time ?

Those it works inside a conventional oven.those it work. if it this fan then make a pump to pump juice from the inside a pot to distributed throughout the inside of the pot chicken turkey or anything that needs to bejuiced.

little editing advice, music you imput in your video shouldnt be louder than you speaking.

One of the most effective fans I've seen are those that are built into the stove itself. It takes the heat from around the fire box itself. They are often part of what's called zero clearance fire places. Another good fan is one that is built into the stove pipe itself. it can be bought separate and installs in the flue pipe. But be aware that that type of fan is efficient enough to actually cool the escaping smoke going up the chimney. This results in a need to clean the stove pipe of a bigger creosote build up that you wouldn't get if the escaping gases were hotter.

The heat comes from the glas point them outwards so the heat blows from glas to the middle of room

Anyone that owns one knows the answer to that love mine at those temperatures it’s going to be a couple of days before the room is comfortable

They are useless...and just wait til it starts squeaking !

If the stove is using the exterior wall existing chimney, a good portion of the heat is just heating up the outside wall. A more centrally located stove (not up against a wall), free standing with a chimney pipe going directly up through the roof is ideal. That stove is big enough. Being centrally located (all sides exposed to the room), it would work well. Right now, it's just heating up an exterior wall ...like a traditional fireplace.

The instructions on mines says to put them behind (not the stove) closer to the pipe

Streamer would be helpful..so we can see how hard they are blowing

First let me say I love your music. Number one mistake people make when installing wood stove pipe, do not turn pipes out thru wall. Lots of heat comes from the chimney pipe. and you get much less creosotes in a straight chimney out. Also if you burn real hot every so often it will burn all the creosote regularly and no need to clean chimney pipes. With chimney pipe straight and a low speed ceiling fan you get a whole house warm perfectly

Waste of money you can’t generate extra heat out of thin air

What happens if you put one of this inside an oven? Do you get convection?

In response to the last comment , I think your right, you’d think he’d do a little research first, I’m buying one anyway not due to the review. Lol

Do you know what really works? a normal fan, blowing against the chest of the stove.........

Novelty item I think as we all know you can't get free heat

It looks like something you would see in a Ghibli movie.

Someone send this poor kid a few dozen cheese burgers.