Attn: Alaska Channing Owners With Duct Top

jacknanticoke · Post by **jacknanticoke** » Wed. Mar. 11, 2009 11:10 am

I found this one -> http://www.draftinducers.com/ad1.htm which has a control on it. Emailed to find out how many CFM it pushes as well as the cost.

Thanks for the tips. Can you tell a difference in your air flow to your vents with it on and off? Also, I see you have a cold air hose running to the fan for the feeder I guess. How did that cold air help the fire and heat?

Got a response. The unit will push 200 CFM in my 6" duct and will cost $151 including shipping. That a good deal?

bksaun · Post by **bksaun** » Wed. Mar. 11, 2009 1:09 pm

Thanks for the tips. Can you tell a difference in your air flow to your vents with it on and off? Also, I see you have a cold air hose running to the fan for the feeder I guess. How did that cold air help the fire and heat?

Without the fan my forced air system would sort of bypass my stove without picking up much heat off of it, the fan keeps the heat washed off the stove and puts it where I want it.

The flex hose you are talking about is a left over from a pellet stove cold air intake, I just adapted it to the coal stove. My house is old and leaky and I could get by without it, but that's that much cold air I am not drawing into the house.

Bk

Bratkinson · Post by **Bratkinson** » Wed. Mar. 11, 2009 1:33 pm

WOW!

That's a beautiful piece of work! I now have to rethink some of my ideas.

The cold air return directly into the side (and left side, too?) and using a draft inducer would solve a couple of problems I've been toying with (like too much heat!). For now, I simply cut in a couple of controllable outlet vents (aka, regular forced air outlet vents) into 3 of the 5 cold air returns in the basement....open for coal, closed for everything else (including A/C).

Thank you for the SUPER insight on how to handle things!

One quick question regarding your combustion air intake...any problems with the motor burning out? I built a similar setup a couple weeks ago and am hesitant to go the last 6" into the stove as it's a 20' run already...

bksaun · Post by **bksaun** » Wed. Mar. 11, 2009 10:20 pm

The cold air return directly into the side (and left side, too?) and using a draft inducer would solve a couple of problems I've been toying with (like too much heat!). For now, I simply cut in a couple of controllable outlet vents (aka, regular forced air outlet vents) into 3 of the 5 cold air returns in the basement....open for coal, closed for everything else (including A/C).

Thank you for the SUPER insight on how to handle things!

One quick question regarding your combustion air intake...any problems with the motor burning out? I built a similar setup a couple weeks ago and am hesitant to go the last 6" into the stove as it's a 20' run already...

The left and right side are conected underneath the stove by a sheet metal box.

And the combustion fan is original, no problems there.

Bk

Bratkinson · Post by **Bratkinson** » Thu. Mar. 12, 2009 4:06 pm

Underneath...That would solve the problem.

I was thinking more like another split of the cold air return into the left side. I'm now considering taking a direct feed from my cold-air plenum from the furnace which is 6 feet to the left of my stove. Of course, the cold air side is on the left of the furnace, so I'd have to go around the back of the furnace to reach the stove.

Lots of great ideas for this summer. MANY THANKS for your help!!

Bruce