Thermal fan

[Newbie78]

I just put my Kill-o-watt meter on my woodstove blower to see how much juice it actually takes to run. The blower is variable speed on a rheostat. On high the fan draws about 45 watts, on the lowest speed its about 35 watts. When running my fan, I generally use the lowest speed. At 35 watts, it would take 28.5 hours to draw one kilowatt. Our cost per kilowatt is 13 cents, so the cost of running the fan for nearly 29 hours is only 13 cents.

Excellent! At that rate it will only take 7 and 1/2 years to pay itself off! That's burning pretty much 24/7 for 200 days a year here.

the quiet is worth it to me. 🙂