I've been reading the forms pretty regularly for the past month and figured I would ask a few questions about my stove. I just bought a new Pacific Energy Pacific Insert for the fire place in my basement and it was installed on New Years Eve. We have been using it pretty regularly for a month now and love it. It burns great and heats the whole house because my chimney runs right through the middle. I was fortunate that I split and stacked 2 in fall of 08 so I have enough dry oak and locust for the winter. My question is this. If there is a power outage is there and harm in running the stove without the blower? Will the parts inside the fireplace get too hot or will it be fine? I see temps upstairs on my chimney around 100 degrees when the stove is running all day over the weekend and I didn't know if that was bad and would get hotter if there was no air movement. My Chimney is lined with not insulated if that matters.