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Thread ID: 139445	2015-05-03 00:08:00	Heat transfer unit	Cicero (40)	PC World Chat

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1399892	2015-05-03 05:16:00	Save your money Cic. Tweaks will be right. I would be reluctant to fork out that amount of money on what appears to be a small fan, but there might have been a reason that I missed. Tweaks logic seems good to me.	Cicero (40)
1399893	2015-05-03 05:43:00	Ceiling fans are the best option regardless of how well these things work, especially if you have a high ceiling.	dugimodo (138)
1399894	2015-05-03 05:58:00	Ceiling fans are the best option regardless of how well these things work, especially if you have a high ceiling. Which is good if you can fit one, in my case there is no access to allow for fitting.	Cicero (40)
1399895	2015-05-03 06:00:00	to add, if you got a $50 mains powered fan, it will flow 100x or more airflow than that stove top one, and use i dunno 50c worth of power?. with the amount of $$ you save from buying the stove top you could power a big fan for a lifetime and it would actually move air around the room well enough to keep everything warm. Hard to argue with some one who knows what he is talking about	prefect (6291)
1399896	2015-05-03 07:14:00	Sister in law has one of those fans in her house it blows heat from the fire across her 7m long lounge. You certainly know the difference if you remove it from the fire.	gary67 (56)
1399897	2015-05-03 07:52:00	Sister in law has one of those fans in her house it blows heat from the fire across her 7m long lounge. You certainly know the difference if you remove it from the fire. ask her if she could put a temp gauge on the other side of the lounge and take the fan on and off, and record the temps. i've had it before when tweaking things, it feels like its better, go measure it and there is no difference :( i would be very surprised if such a small slow speed fan does much of anything unless its a tiny lounge.	tweak'e (69)
1399898	2015-05-03 23:50:00	My Valiant Premiere 4 version works well and is almost silent. But if dick and tweaks say they don't work they must not!!! Even if they do.	KarameaDave (15222)
1399899	2015-05-04 00:03:00	to add, if you got a $50 mains powered fan, it will flow 100x or more airflow than that stove top one, and use i dunno 50c worth of power?. with the amount of $$ you save from buying the stove top you could power a big fan for a lifetime and it would actually move air around the room well enough to keep everything warm. That's true but standard fans might move air too fast, which tends to have a cooling effect. I once installed a ducted heat transfer system into my house to move heat generated by a pot bellied stove into the hall and master bedroom. It used a large diameter 75W fan to move a largish volume of air gently, I was informed if you tried to speed up the airflow you lost more heat than you gained. Of course that's travelling several metres through an insulated duct and not just circulating in the room. The duct worked ok but only raised the temp a little in the other rooms and the lounge was still too hot, I had a theory that cutting a large vent through the adjoining wall from the lounge to the hall would have worked better. I don't recommend pot belly stoves for small spaces, they pour out way too much heat. Adding one of these things could only make that worse :) which begs the question, wood burners putting out as much heat as they do why would you need to worry about making them better.	dugimodo (138)
1399900	2015-05-04 00:03:00	My Valiant Premiere 4 version works well and is almost silent. But if dick and tweaks say they don't work they must not!!! Even if they do. I am a bit worried about Dicky.	Cicero (40)
1399901	2015-05-04 00:06:00	Adding one of these things could only make that worse :) which begs the question, wood burners putting out as much heat as they do why would you need to worry about making them better. By transferring heat to where it is wanted.	Cicero (40)
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