Solution 1.8 Insert Installation and Operation Manual 3
Table of content
PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ............................... 6
1 Safety Information ..................................................................... 6
1.1 Summary of Operation and Maintenance Cautions and Warnings ..................................... 6
2 General Information ................................................................... 8
2.1 Solution 1.8 Insert Specifications ........................................................................................ 8
2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You ............................................................... 10
2.3 The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency ......................................................... 10
2.4 The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment .......................................................... 11
2.4.1 What is Your New Insert Made Of? ............................................................................... 11
3 Fuel ........................................................................................... 12
3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned ............................................................................... 12
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood ............................................................................ 12
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? ............................................................................................... 12
3.2.2 Tree Species ................................................................................................................. 12
3.2.3 Log Length .................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.4 Piece Size ..................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood ..................................................................................................... 14
3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content .............................................................................. 15
3.3 Manufactured Logs ........................................................................................................... 15
4 Operating Your Insert .............................................................. 16
4.1 Your First Fires ................................................................................................................. 16
4.2 Lighting Fires .................................................................................................................... 16
4.2.1 Conventional Fire Starting ............................................................................................. 16
4.2.2 The Top Down Fire ........................................................................................................ 17
4.2.3 Two Parallel Logs .......................................................................................................... 17
4.2.4 Using Fire Starters ........................................................................................................ 17
4.3 Maintaining Wood Fires .................................................................................................... 17
4.3.1 General Advice .............................................................................................................. 17
4.3.2 Ash Removal ................................................................................................................. 18
4.3.3 Raking Charcoal ............................................................................................................ 18
4.3.4 Firing Each New Load Hot ............................................................................................ 19
4.3.5 Turning Down the Air Supply ......................................................................................... 19
4.4 Fan Operation ................................................................................................................... 20
4.4.1 Building Different Fires for Different Needs ................................................................... 20
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