Supplemental Wood Stove Thermostat
Hello, I have a supplemental wood stove (by Hotblast) attached to my home forced air furnace. The wood stove also has a blower motor in it (has a thermostat which only kicks the blower on when a certain temp is reached in the wood stove) and it is piped into the furnace/ductwork-. When I burn wood, I usually keep the furnace fan in the ON position on the home thermostat, located upstairs from the furnace. This will allow the furnace fan to blow the hot air from the wood throughout my home. The problem is, the wood stove will heat the home up to 85+ degrees, requiring the opening of windows in the dead of winter. Is there a way that I could wire in a thermostat that connects to the wood stove blower, or the furnace blower, or an inline electric dampener or something....just some way to cutoff the heat when it gets too hot. Or is this possible from my existing thermostat- connected to my furnace (since I am using the blower from the furnace) Or am I totally missing something with the house thermostat that is currently there. Should I keep it on fan AUTO? Will this just kick on the furnace fan when the temp falls below a certain number? I'm hesitant to think this is the answer, because I am not sure how it this t-stat would distinguish between asking the furnace to turn on, or the furnace blower, or the wood stove (which it can't do) Sorry if this is confusing.....just seems like there is a more controllable way to use wood heating. Thank you for any and all ideas can you run new wire to a 2nd thermostat from the furnace? A second thermosat won't lower the heat in the box. The blower thermostat is adjustable as far as kick in and kick out is concerned. You don't want to fiddle too much with it, as the box needs the air to keep operating at a decent temperature and not overheat. If yours has a filter, you will note the warning if power is lost, to remove the filter to keep airflow moving around the firebox. I have the same set up on our house, and love it. I don't have the problem you have, as I keep a fairly low fire and it keeps the house around 68 or 70. Normally we like it at 65, but the fire is not controllable. Also, set your damper to the lowest setting, or almost closed once the fire gets going good. I grew up with this wood stove, and I know what you mean about the house getting HOT! There is no way to really control it.. What we did when the weather was mild, we just left the t-stat fan switch to AUTO and let the heat work it's way out the duct. When it was cold we then switch the fan to ON. Do you have A/C on your furnace?
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