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Force draft and induce draft fans
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stichrunner
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Has any body tried building a balanced draft system for there eggs. This would consist of a forced draft fan and a small little heat exchanger and induce draft fan and a new exhaust stack. If it worked you could use a lot less charcoal and longer controlled burns. By the way this is my first post and I picked my egg up yesterday I would say that I'm a little excited. Sorry that I let my inner nerd out on the first Post.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
XL bge, Napoleon Prestige Pro 665 (gasser) sad that it won't be used much anymore.
XL bge, Napoleon Prestige Pro 665 (gasser) sad that it won't be used much anymore.
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I do good to build a fire but it sounds interesting. Give it a go and post some pictures. Welcome to the forum. We are amongst some great folks and VERY knowledgable cooks. Enjoy!Snellville, GA
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Interesting idea using a heat exchanger. I'd like to see that done.Aledo, Texas
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KJ Jr.
Exodus 12:9 KJV
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I work in the oil industry and we heat the air that we use in our heaters that way. It cuts back on fuel gas a lot. Trying to build the heat exchanger would probably be a little difficult. When my fellas asked how the BGE worked I said there is a natural draft door on the bottom and a stack dampener on top.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
XL bge, Napoleon Prestige Pro 665 (gasser) sad that it won't be used much anymore. -
For my longer, controlled burns I use the PID loop based blower and meat/grate/dome probes in my CyberQ wifi or the other popular brand flame boss 200. Another big name I this is stokerLBGE, AR. Lives in N.E. ATL
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I'd be concerned using it for low and slow. Lack of need for more heat means less air being called for so less fire and the fire goes out.Aledo, Texas
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KJ Jr.
Exodus 12:9 KJV
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. -
First, congradulatuons on the new egg and welcome aboard.stichrunner said:Has any body tried building a balanced draft system for there eggs. This would consist of a forced draft fan and a small little heat exchanger and induce draft fan and a new exhaust stack.
Probably the most common use for forced draft on smokers is when running an extremely long cook chamber. Under this condition it's much easier to raise flue pressure above atmospheric pressure by application of a forced draft. The purpose of this is to negate hot and cold spots. Also to try and insure even flow across the length of a excessively long cooking chamber. On that note, induced draft is used for this very reason way more on smokers than is forced draft. It's usually controlled by stack/chimney height.
As far as induced draft, most folks in need of induced draft simply increase the height and/or diameter of the stack. Increasing the height is the usual method as a longer narrower exhaust is easier to tune than a shorter and wider exhaust. This is considerably cheaper and more practical than installing and up keeping some sort of ID fan. Especially on stationary pits that do not get moved around.
The limited size of the egg would cause nightmares trying to run both forced and induced draft at the same time. The extremely small volume of the cook chamber simply does not contain the necessary air volume or dead air space to warrant either.
Im not bashing your idea, quite the contrary. I actually enjoy tinkering with and modifying smokers. However I feel by trying to incorporate forced and induced draft to the egg it would turn it into an eye sore that was cumbersome and took up a lot of space. In my opinion the egg is simply to small and does not contain the necessary dead air space volume to warrant a true continuous forced and/or assisted induced draft. However if you decide to do it, I would love to see it my friend.
For clarification, I'm not talking about Gurus, Stokers, Aubers , etc etc that cycle on and off and function mainly as a thermostat for lack of a better word. I'm talking strictly about fan assisted, constant forced and/or induced draft where the goal is to manipulate draft by either raising or lowering flue pressure above or below atmospheric pressure.
Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.
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That's pretty much what I had typed up before I saw SGH post.
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Thanks for the info yall. It was something that popped in my head when i seen the guru.New Orleans, Louisiana.
XL bge, Napoleon Prestige Pro 665 (gasser) sad that it won't be used much anymore. -
stichrunner said:Thanks for the info yall. It was something that popped in my head when i seen the guru.
Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.
Status- Standing by.
The greatest barrier against all wisdom, the stronghold against knowledge itself, is the single thought, in ones mind, that they already have it all figured out.
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