TV on a Chimney Breast with a Log Burner underneath?

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Hi All,

We're in the process of having a load of house work done, and we've got the idea of potentially putting a TV on our chimney breast. We'd have our log burner underneath.

Ideally, we'd also wall mount a sound bar underneath, but I just wondered if anyone here had done anything like that and if it coped ok with the heat?
 
After some google fu - oops : / - I found that this doesn't seem to be an issue, especially if you put a little shelf there to deflect the heat.

Now... any sound bar recommendations?

Ideally the unit under the TV would only have 1 cable going to it, and have a separate box for dealing with all my HDMI inputs etc
 
Have a look in the instruction manual. It give the operating temperature range for the TV and the soundbar (download them if the gear isn't yet purchased). Quick shortcut - most gear is 0-35 Degrees C. Sometimes its a little higher, but not much.

A log burner will reach about 600 degrees C when burning most effectively.

Do you think you can lose 580 degrees of heat in the time it takes the hot air to rise from the fire to where the TV and soundbar will live?


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We are going through this exact change in our house atm, we didn't trust the TV above the fire so have moved it onto a different wall.

There was maybe a foot from the top of the burner to the TV so wasn't going to risk it.
 
lucid said:
A log burner will reach about 600 degrees C when burning most effectively.

Do you think you can lose 580 degrees of heat in the time it takes the hot air to rise from the fire to where the TV and soundbar will live?[/IMG]
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Are you seriously suggesting that the temperature of the air above a wood burner is 500+ deg C :| ? Think about it bro.
 
My tv's about 4ft away from the log burner. it does get pretty hot. As far as im aware though, as long as its not say... less than 2ft away, then you should be fine. As you said a little shelf will be perfect.
 
Zefan said:
Are you seriously suggesting that the temperature of the air above a wood burner is 500+ deg C :| ? Think about it bro.
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No. Read it again. I'm not suggesting but implicitly saying (can't get any more direct than that) that you have a device that burns at up to 600 deg C and then above it another device (or two) that have a recommended maximum operating temperature of somewhere around 35 deg C.

Oh, and heat rises.

What you do with your own TV is up to you. But when we have capacitors failing prematurely because they're getting cooked by the small heat sinks inside a TV, would you really want to make the situation worse by bathing the set in rising hot air?

You "Think about it bro."
 
Have you got your burner setup now? Feel how hot it is where the TV is going to be, it shouldn't be that hot. You will be okay, especially if you have a beam of wood below the TV acting as a heat barrier.

Saying that I moved our TV when we had a burner put in.
 
Even if it is fine and dandy, I can't imagine it'd look very nice and would compromise the TV viewing by forcing it to be too high?
 
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