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Aarrow Stove User Guide
7 How heat is delivered by your stove
7.1 Radiant heat
All Aarrow stoves radiate heat into the room. The radiated heat is most intense at the front of
the stove, especially through the door glass and less intense the further you move away from
the stove.
This radiated heat is delivered as infrared rays which heat the objects they strike. It is then
these objects (such as the chimney breast, hearth etc.) which heat the surrounding air.
7.2 Convected heat
Air immediately adjacent to the stove is heated as a result of contact with its hot surfaces.
This air then rises being replaced by cooler air which is then heated and rises again.
This creates a circuit or flow of air referred to as a convection current, which helps to distrib-
ute heat around the room in which the stove has been installed.
Aarrow i Series cassette stoves benefit from having a convection system which further en-
courages this movement of air supplying additional heat to the room. The colder air is drawn
into a chamber at the base of the stove and warms up as it goes around the back of the
stove before entering the room from the top of the stove.