exactly sir exactly in my old place we didnt have a central heat and air fan but we had a ceiling fan and it worked great for circulating the heat if one liztens to youtubers youll spend a bunch of money on junk that doesnt really work when all you really need is a ceiling fan or even something like a box fan as long as there is air flowing the heat will circulate
I leave two ceiling fans on low in the winter direction and they move my wood cook stove heat throughout the place. They make fans that mount on the top corner of doors to move the air between rooms or down a hallway.
I just installed a new wood stove in my house and I was wondering what running my three ceiling fans was going to do to my electric bill………so thanks for the breakdown I’m going to run them 24/7 now!
Ceiling fans are the best thing since sliced bread....in one of my homes, I ran my fan 24/7, each and every day, all year long....never noticed an increase in the bill....they are very low amp/watts 😉
Hi, an electrician here with HVAC knowledge....running ceiling fans full time, even on their lowest setting, will often pay dividends when it comes to heating or cooling costs. They help evenly distribute the heated or cooled air so that the sensing device (thermostat, humidistat, etc.) can more accurately determine what the heating or cooling equipment should be doing instead of relying on natural air convection, which typically only happens when the heating or cooling equipment is running. FYI, even reasonable quality ceiling fans are designed to run trouble free for decades. Keep them free of dust, dusty fans will not operate efficiently and won't last as long. Ceiling fans are extremely energy efficient so anytime you can use them to reduce the cycling frequency of your heating or cooling equipment, you are saving money.
Useing a cheap $20 box fan blow the cold air towards the stove/hot air. Trying to blow hot air towards the cold areas dosnt work that well. However since hot air rises if you move the cold air towards the hot spot all the hot air alreaty at the ceiling moves.
That non electric fan that you showed a picture of is powered by a thermoelectric generator or TEG. It turns heat differential into electricity that runs a small DC electric motor like those in model cars. If the TEG overheats it will burn up. One side of the TEG must be cooled by the fins and the airflow going over them. There is another much more expensive type that is powered with a Stirling engine which also uses heat differential to power it. They are works of kinetic art though.
Those woodstove top fans are next to useless. Look at how how much air they are rated to move and compare that to an electric fan. Even when it's running as fast as it can you can't feel anything more than a couple feet away.
Not sure if putting open vents between floors is advisable. Think you make be breaking fire codes doing that. Fire can jump floor to floor really fast doing that...
use extractor for growbox it work great .. full power in the saloon i get 40+ celcius inside XD with extractor i send hot air next room manage to drop at 28c in the salloon and get up to a nice 22.5c next room..
I leave two ceiling fans on low in the winter direction and they move my wood cook stove heat throughout the place. They make fans that mount on the top corner of doors to move the air between rooms or down a hallway.
