Q&A: How Does the Eco Fan on My Woodstove Work?

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hi everybody sean james here for my self-reliance welcome to the cabin so most of what I do here at the cabin is without power so mostly building things with hand tools and and getting water from the stream or melting snow and things like that so I'm not using any outside energy sources the only source of energy really is wood I'm heating and cooking with firewood on the wood stove inside as you probably know but I do get a lot of questions about the fan that's sitting on top of the stove because it's a moving fan and question is what's powering it the answer is it's a thermal electric generator

which means it generates power where this device generates power through differences in temperatures so the heat of the stove and the coolness of the the fins here I'll kind of dissipate the heat so the cool up here and the extreme heat on the stove down here creates a some voltage so electrical electric current and it powers this fan now that principle can be used to power other things as well but it's not a very efficient energy generation source or technologies but it is good for generating power for something as simple and as low in that low of demand as a as a simple fan like this so basically what happens it's the bottom here that coil heats out for that thin piece of metal and transfers the heat back up into through here and then it generates some current and that that fan gets moving now I'm not sure what exactly the differential in temperature needs to be but basically as soon as that stove heats up to the point where I can feel it the fan starts turning slowly and then it reaches a maximum speed doesn't go anything any faster this one was actually sent to me by G stove they were kind enough to send me and my wife a portable stove to use for winter camping we're freezing over the nice side so they sent this along with that stove to be used with that on top of that little stove to generate some circulation and something like a hot tent or a small cabin I find it's usually not necessary in a small space like that in a hot to a small cabin or an ice hut but in this larger cabin it's nice to have that additional air circulation this fan on top of the stove pushing the heat around the cabin a little bit so if you want to look that up it's called the Seebeck effect it's similar to the Peltier thermoelectric cooler or heater so if you want to look that up online look up try you can look up Peltier so PE LTI ER or the Seebeck effect Seb e CK I think and it'll explain a little bit more about how the thermoelectric generators work so hope that answers your questions and put this back on the stove it's a beautiful day out here above thinking cut above 10 Celsius and sun's shining you can hear the water dripping off the cabinet starting to melt but there's a ton of snow on the ground still so we're looking at another week at least before this clears and before the ice clears off the lake so it's getting down a little freezing again tonight so a little bit of air circulation the cabin will be appreciated so thanks for watching this video I look forward to seeing you up here at the cabin again next week take care [Applause]

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