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Harman Heat Doubler! The convection helper!

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  1. don2222

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    Hello
    This old St Croix convection blower moves air over the hot stove top and creates twice as much hot air coming at ya! My friend says she gets heat in her bedrooms at the far end of her house like never before!
    What do you Harman folks think?
     

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    Buy an Enviro??
     
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    Some Enviro stoves have 2 rows of heat exchanger tubes, is that what you are referring to?
    Still only one convection fan!
     
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    Nope...pretty sure mine doesn't have 2 rows, do you mean 2 stacked or side by side Don ?
     
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    2 stacked like the Meridian
    The Harman P52i has 2 convection blowers. So why not a P-series stove with the second convection blower on top?
     
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    Mine only has one row.

    I didn't read your original post correctly, may or may not have been influenced by my beer intake!
     
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    Ok, I even tried the blower sitting directly on the hot part and it really blasts the heat even better!!!
     
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    If they fit one(higher CFM) on the inside I might have bought one. ;)
     
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    Does your stove have that big boy 325 CFM heat blaster?
     
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    I swapped it to the larger Maxx blower(455CFM) when I added ducting.
     
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    That never happens :whistle:
     
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    Whatever works is OK with me.
     
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    O'Tay BuckWheat!
     
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    Ya mean there are stoves other than Harman? Who'da thunk it :faint:
     
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    Stove top heat isn't wasted (it's radinat), but if you can exchange more off the top? Then you get more heat. That would apply to a lot of stoves that have a hot stove top.

    The added noise would be a no go for most if it's in a room that you are in or near.

    My stove doesnt have a very hot stove top, but it has a vent on the top cast plate that lets the radiant heat out and up into the room. Beneath the top cast plate is the actual stove top. So that heat does get radiated out, eventually. .
     
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    The Harman stoves get really hot on the top and sides so you are correct Dexter in that forcing more air over the hot stove will create more heat.
     
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