Auto-Draft Inducer
If you have smoke leaking out of your stove pipe or through the door or seams you may want to get an auto-draft inducer. Draft inducers operate electrically and are designed to increase the air flow up a chimney. By increasing the air flow up the chimney the negative pressure (draft) in the stove and up the chimney is increased. This prevents smoke from leaking out of the stove pipe, seams or doors.
Auto-draft inducers are designed specifically for wood and coal stoves that are experiencing severe draft problems. Besides eliminating smoke leaks from the stove and pipe they also have some other benefits.
Some of these benefits include the following:
Improving the draft of the chimney helps to eliminate smoke that may come out of the stove when you are loading more fuel to the fire.
Auto-draft inducers help overcome flow reversal in chimneys that are non-self-starting and helps you get the fire started quickly.
By increasing the draft the stove will likely burn the fuel more completely giving you more heat and leaving a finer ash.
Most auto-draft inducers are easy to install and can fit most diameters of stove pipes. Just be sure to read and follow all of the manufacturers instructions or have it installed by a professional. Most inducers are heat resistant with a radial blower that can be set to various speeds.