Well I am finishing up this week on an install of a small pellet stove (a New Englander 55-SHP-10 to heat a 600 sq ft enclosed patio'd room addition)
And I have heard horror stories about smokey back drafts during power outages or just a normal shutdown (say due to high winds on the vent side of the house).
Some pellet stove owners have purchased an UPS (UnInterruptible Power Supply).
This does not appear to be a complete solution.
My question (esp. to knowlegeable owners of the 55-SHP-10 and similar electronic controlled stoves) is :
Why connect the entire stove to a UPS?
When all one needs to do is to guarantee that the exhaust fan continues for a good 20-25 minutes after "any" power removal
(intentional or unintentional).
Looking at the basic schematic, I see that the exhaust fan is actually a combustion fan.
Does that pose a problem?
- to jury_rig the combustion fan (about 100Watts typical vs 600-800Watts for the entire stove)
to run an extended 20 minutes (no matter what) after power is removed?
aside from the obvious warranty problems
It would not take much of an UPS and a basic relay circuit to do this.
Is this a feature the next generation stove could use or am I off in right field...
Will prolonging the exhaust fan actually keep combustion going?
How do these things stop>?
Chris H.
NH (or real motto is - "Live, Freeze, Then Die")
And I have heard horror stories about smokey back drafts during power outages or just a normal shutdown (say due to high winds on the vent side of the house).
Some pellet stove owners have purchased an UPS (UnInterruptible Power Supply).
This does not appear to be a complete solution.
My question (esp. to knowlegeable owners of the 55-SHP-10 and similar electronic controlled stoves) is :
Why connect the entire stove to a UPS?
When all one needs to do is to guarantee that the exhaust fan continues for a good 20-25 minutes after "any" power removal
(intentional or unintentional).
Looking at the basic schematic, I see that the exhaust fan is actually a combustion fan.
Does that pose a problem?
- to jury_rig the combustion fan (about 100Watts typical vs 600-800Watts for the entire stove)
to run an extended 20 minutes (no matter what) after power is removed?
aside from the obvious warranty problems
It would not take much of an UPS and a basic relay circuit to do this.
Is this a feature the next generation stove could use or am I off in right field...
Will prolonging the exhaust fan actually keep combustion going?
How do these things stop>?
Chris H.
NH (or real motto is - "Live, Freeze, Then Die")