This kind of pissed me off.
I have found out, that we have this thing above our heater. Heat spreads using the AREA that is in contact with air. This is why your GPU has metal fins mere mm spread from each other.

I am seriously thinking, if I should just take a cooler from 2 GPUs, and weld it to this device in order to make the heat get to the room faster.

Would it make a noticable difference?

@LukeAlmighty @LukeAlmighty gas furnace or what? I don't immediately recognize your image but guessing I'd say it looks like a heat exchanger for the exhaust flow to capture otherwise waste heat. is there a primary radiator somewhere else?
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Normal wood furnace. And yes, on the picture is the heat exchanger. And I was wondering, if this is seriously supposed to be a "good design"

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@LukeAlmighty @LukeAlmighty to be clear, that's the *only* heat exchanger? but it's wood so I'm assuming it's aiming for simple and robust rather than efficient. and wood smoke can be quite dirty so I don't think you can use the sort of heat exchangers with it that you would for natural gas

is this one of those traditional metal wood stoves that's freestanding or what?

@roboneko
FURNACE!!! I have finally remembered the correct english word. :ablobcool:

But yeah. It is a simple setup, where there is a wood furnace, and this device is placed between the furnace and the chimney to extract more heat out of it.

I get, that the smoke inside isn't clean, but that shouldn't matter, if I connect the heat sinks and fans on the outside of this device right? And since it is still being heated from the inside, the true factor making it more efficient should be the ability to extract the heat out of the exchanger.

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