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Furnace question

Inthehollow

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Putting in a outdoor wood boiler and wondering how to control the fan is there a way to run the fan with a thermostat. Want to control fan only it is a air to air heat pump. Can I use a separate thermostat for the fan and use the existing thermostat for the heat pump. Thanks Bret

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This might help but I'm not sure I have the same setup as you. I have a radiator installed in the plenum of the furnace. The hot water from the outdoor boiler circulates thru it. The fan in the furnace has a separate thermostat wired to it. The fan in the furnace runs until it reaches the temp the thermostat is set at and then shuts off. I shut this thermostat off when the normal furnace control is turned on.

Simple answer would be yes, use a separate thermostat to control the "fan only"...or least that's what I did.

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haleysgold thanks any idea how you did it seems a little more of a challenge being a air to air heat pump. I may contact the manufacture.

Hollow - It was fairly easy. The "dial" thermostat just attached to the furnace control to the fan. That part the heating guy did, I do recall that but he said it was no problem. That puts juice to the fan only.

I have a question for you. If you have a heat pump, why do you need the outdoor wood burner? The heat pump should heat your house no problem so why go thru the extra money for the burner and your time cutting wood?

The only expense to a heat pump, once it's installed, is the electricity to run it.

Am I missing something?

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Haleysgold I am putting the boiler to heat the floor in my shop and to supplement my heat pump it struggles once the temp gets below 15 or so. I live smack in the middle of the woods I enjoy cutting wood done it for a lot of years.

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