I rarely embrace consumer products on the blog, recommending things is often fraught these days, but I did want to share our interesting discovery of a new and seemingly new kind of heat and wood stove distribution fan.
Last week, on a friend’s enthusiastic suggestion, I bought a Feodo Heat Powered Wood Stove Fan that sits on wood stoves and efficientnly and silently uses it’s fans (I got a five blade fan, there are other models) and I am impressed at the way it distributes warm air evenly and over distance.
We just turned it on today (it cost $30) and I can already feel the heat being distributed across the dining room and into the living room and kitchen, some feel apart. I want to take more than a day to figure out what it can do. I’m not yet certain of its performance or range.
The fan is not electric, the heat from the stove get the blades most almost instantly and without any sound. We will leave it whenever the stove is burning wood. I just opened the package and put it on the stove, and the blades started whiring. I can feel the warmth in my office, around a corner and 15 feet away.
Like everything else, electricity and wood are expensive, our stoves have been instrumental in keeping our utility bills down, along with our solar panels in the north pasture. I can’t say how well the wood stove fan will do or how long it will stand up, for now it looks promising enough that I thought I should share it. I’m not a consumer specialist, so please don’t contact me for additional information or advice. This is all I know. You can see this product on Amazon and elsewhere if you want to take a look.
I dread the amateur problem solvers on social media, I don’t wish to be one of them. But we are all in this together, believe it or not.
I’ll report on the Foedo Heat Powered Fireplace Fan wood and lumber burning and heat distribution once I give it a few days. You can and should draw your own conclusions. I can’t really speak to the performance or value, and I shouldn’t. But this seems different for me and I believe we need to share what information we can during the climate crisis.
We ordered one. Ken had watched these for Years but they’ve been out of our price range. Will let you know how we find it to work. Thanks for the reminder of them.
we have two of them and they work just fine
We have something very similar. Have used this one fan for several years to move heat to some rooms in the house from the wood stove. Works great and Very quiet as you say. Plus a very pleasing design.
We had one of those, years ago, and it worked well!
Fascinating article on the Feodo Heat Powered Wood Stove Fan! It’s great to see a product that leverages renewable energy to heat homes more efficiently. I’m curious to know if you’ve compared it to other heat distribution methods, like loft insulation. Perhaps you could explore that in a future post? It would be interesting to see how loft boarding could complement the Feodo fan to create a truly energy-saving heating system. I hope this is helpful!