Arrow 1490 in soon-to-own home. Plugged in?

[Ahoragi]

Hello everyone. I got locked out of my old account due to my email no longer existing so I could not confirm my log in so I had to make another account. But anyways, I was always on the pellet forums due to owning a Castle Serenity Pellet stove which has been fantastic. Today we got confirmation that we are selling our house but also closing on another property which has a wood stove. We did a final walk through on the property to make sure stuff is good to go for this Friday's closing and got a chance to look at the wood stove up close. It is an Arrow 1490 but I noticed it was plugged in to an outlet. The plug runs into a box attached to the bottom of the stove. Nothing else is attached except the chimney. Can anyone tell me what this box is under the stove? Is it a blower of some sort? i did not see any vents coming out of it.

Thanks for any help on this. I been searching for 40 minutes and very little info on this stove. It's strange.

 

[TheJeff]

Blower ?

 

[mellow]

Blower, that is an old stove that really should be replaced anyway. I would get the chimney inspected before closing but that is just me.

 

[Ahoragi]

Kind of forgot about this but figured I'd toss in an update. Apparently it was manufactured in 1991 so yeah it is old. The previous owner installed new chimney and all that so it was clean as a whistle. We have been burning about a cord and a third in it this winter. My wife and I have had some frustrated encounters with it as it seems to be very picky with how you place the wood. It is only 10" deep but 18" wide so wood has to be placed in sideways and not straight in, which only allows you to fit 3, maybe four pieces. Going with 4 pieces and airflow in the box is completely cut off and nothing catches until you remove the 4th piece. Sometimes sticking two kindling pieces on the coals before the logs will allow air flow and ignite all four pieces. You have to play chess with it in a way.

I have downed some black walnut and cherry trees and cut them to 8" length so I can stack straight in and have more pieces in there so next season we will see how that burns.

We did get it up to 500 degrees a few times with some black cherry chunks and oak so it does put out some serious heat when you can get the wood going.

It's an alright stove and pretty useful for what it is. We will upgrade it in the near future and move it to the garage.

 

[stovelark]

Looking this stove up, and remembering Arrow gas stoves we had in the store that were years old when I got there, tracked it down to being made by Heatilator, a division of HHT industries (Quadrafire, Harman, Heatilator, Heat-N-Glo were divisions of HHT). The gas stoves I remember were basic steel frame heaters, good value for what they cost (Heatilator's goal, a brand name at a value price, their fireplaces are still many builders go to choice today). So, if the stove is in good shape, it still is a clean burner. Not sure about getting parts for one if needed. Was 500 deg stove top temp? If so, thats in band ideally 450-650 degrees for good clean burning. Stay warm.