Solution 2.3 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 ............................................................................ 7
2.1 Solution 2.3 Specifications .................................................................................................. 7
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 .......................................................... 10
2.4.1 What is Your New Stove Made Of? ............................................................................... 10
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 .............................................................................. 14
3.3 Manufactured Logs ........................................................................................................... 15
4 Operating Your Stove ....................................................................... 16
4.1 The use of a fire screen. ................................................................................................... 16
4.2 Your First Fires ................................................................................................................. 16
4.3 Lighting Fires .................................................................................................................... 16
4.3.1 Conventional Fire Starting ............................................................................................. 17
4.3.2 The Top Down Fire ........................................................................................................ 17
4.3.3 Two Parallel Logs .......................................................................................................... 18
4.3.4 Using Fire Starters ........................................................................................................ 18
4.4 Maintaining Wood Fires .................................................................................................... 18
4.4.1 General Advice .............................................................................................................. 18
4.4.2 Ash Removal ................................................................................................................. 19
4.4.3 Raking Charcoal ............................................................................................................ 19
4.4.4 Firing Each New Load Hot ............................................................................................ 20
4.4.5 Turning Down the Air Supply ......................................................................................... 20
4.4.6 Building Different Fires for Different Needs ................................................................... 21
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