A "Must Have" Accessory For Your Buddy Heater

hi everybody this is my buddy indoor propane heater and i've shot some videos about it in the past i'm not going to get into the whole indoor safe aspect of it and all that today it is indoor safe you can trust me on that one what i want to talk about today is an accessory i bought that makes this thing absolutely fantastic it makes it so much more efficient you'll see how it's got that orange glowing plate in the front of it that is actually the infrared heating tile and it has a thin layer of propane burning in front of it and it does a remarkable job at taking that heat and transforming it into radiant heat you can stand fairly far away from this thing and still feel a lot of heat radiating off the front of it however like any fire it does have a lot of hot air that rises up above it and just goes right up into the ceiling and gets wasted and that drives me crazy so what i was looking for was a fan that i could attach to the handle like a clip-on fan it was battery powered or something but then i remembered thermoelectric generator fans that are actually made for wood stoves but it works fantastic on this so let me show you what i got so that is the fan and as you can see it's very flat for sitting on your wood burning stove and it has a metal plate in the bottom when that plate gets hot the temperature differential between this bottom plate and the top plate through that insulator there causes an electric current to flow and this fan just starts running once it gets hot there's no batteries there's no on switch it's silent and it moves a ton of air so what i did was i took a little tomato steak or a little plant steak i bent it into a sort of u-shape and just kind of slid it through that hole so it sticks out the back that allows me to simply do this without cooking my fingers allows me to simply stick it through there like that i should have switched hands and done that right handed so you can see nothing complicated it's just sitting there over top of this heating tile and in just about a minute it will be hot enough where those blades will start spinning didn't even take that long and they will start spinning faster and faster and faster the hotter it gets now i wasn't expecting a lot i was expecting some air movement and i figured i'd be satisfied with that as long as i was getting some of that wasted hot air to blow forward that would be good for me this so far exceeds my expectations i just cannot believe it once this thing really gets up to speed and it does take a few minutes to really get going you can put your hand right here and you can feel a little bit of warmth but it is not much this thing takes almost all of the hot air that's rising up and moves it forward and it's extra efficient because the way this is designed to work again the temperature differential between the top and the bottom while the top does get too hot to touch these are cooling fins so the air is blowing through the cooling fins it's pulling all that heat off of the metal and it's just really really efficient at collecting that rising heat and transferring it into blowing heat moving across the room so i used to set this up when i was down here tinkering around i would put it two or three feet away from me so that i could feel real intense radiant heat and then i could also get a little bit of that rising heat i could stick my hands out you know sort of warm them over the fire now i set this on low and set it across the room and it warms the entire room in about the same amount of time as it used to warm me up when i had it sitting on high right next to me i just i cannot get over how much more efficient this thing makes the heater again no batteries no noise no on switch no nothing and when you shut the heater off as long as that stays hot if i can there we go it'll just keep running until it cools down so you get an additional five minutes or so of air circulating around while this whole unit cools down so all that residual heat doesn't even get wasted it's still blowing warm air around the room for several more minutes so i will put a link down below to this i really really recommend it for if you've got a wood burning stove or any other type of heater where something like this would work and you're trying to really circulate some air around the room one other thing i do with this is we set up some potpourri on the kitchen stove and i will then sort of share the burner we have one of those flat top glass stoves i will share the burner half of this and then half of the potpourri pot and this gets warm enough to start blowing and it just circulates that potpourri around the whole kitchen without having any additional electricity again no batteries no on switch no recharging no electric wires the only electric wires involved in this thing run from the bottom plate to the fan motors that's it that's a little thermoelectric generator all the power comes from the heat in that bottom plate really really neat fan so what i was getting ready to say is that i picked this model because it's the rounded shape and it's low profile it looks very sort of like it was kind of made to be on this unit most of these units you'll see if you scroll around on amazon and look at other choices will be one single fan that's about twice the diameter of both of these so keep in mind that two two inch fans do not move as much air as one four inch fan so if you really want to move a lot of air get the one big fan and it won't look as nice it won't be as small and tidy but it will move more air having said that i will say this thing so so far outperforms my expectations i just cannot believe it so if you were looking to get something that's more sleek and low profile don't think for a minute that this thing is not going to move a significant amount of air i would guesstimate that it moves at least a few hundred cubic feet per minute so that's a lot of air movement it moves a lot more air than something like a bathroom ceiling vent or something like that moves way way more air than one of those and those are usually rated around 100 cubic feet per minute so there you go check that out check out the link down below i don't know if i mentioned it or not but i am going to be shooting a video real soon about how to refill these it'll save you about 50 on what the cost of these little propane tanks are if you just get one of those big uh grill size 20 pound canisters and then get a valve to refill it so i'll shoot a video about how to do that it's really easy all right everybody thanks for watching hope you enjoyed see real soon the next one

Channel: Everyday Fishkeeping

Views: 140,807

Rating: 4.9655566 out of 5

Keywords: TEG Fan, Thermoelectric generator fan, Thermoelectric generator, Mr. Heater, Buddy Heater, Space Heater, Indoor Safe Heater, Propane Heater

Id: AxV5KG3l51U

Length: 7min 1sec (421 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 10 2021