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WARNINGS:
• Never overfire your stove. If any part of the stove starts to glow red, over firing is happening. Readjust the
air intake control at a lower setting.
• The installation of a log cradle or grates is not recommended in your wood stove. Build fire directly on
firebrick.
• Never put wood above the firebrick lining of the firebox.
• Attempts to achieve heat output rates that exceed heater design specifications can result in permanent
damage to the heater.
OPERATION
Controlled combustion is the most efficient technique for wood heating because it enables you to select the type
of combustion you want for each given situation. The wood will burn slowly if the wood stove air intake control is
adjusted to reduce the oxygen supply in the combustion chamber to a minimum. On the other hand, wood will
burn quickly if the air control is adjusted to admit a larger quantity of oxygen in the combustion chamber. Refer
to the primary air settings table for damper operation setting. Real operating conditions may give very different
results than those obtained during testing according to the species of wood used, its moisture content, the size
and density of the pieces, the length of the chimney, altitude and outside temperature.
EFFICIENCIES
Efficiencies can be based on either the lower heating value (LHV) or the higher heating value (HHV) of the fuel.
The lower heating value is when water leaves the combustion process as a vapor, in the case of woodstoves the
moisture in the wood being burned leaves the stove as a vapor. The higher heating value is when water leaves
the combustion process completely condensed. In the case of woodstoves this would assume the exhaust gases
are room temperature when leaving the system, and therefore calculations using this heating value consider
the heat going up the chimney as lost energy. Therefore, efficiency calculated using the lower heating value of
wood will be higher than efficiency calculated using the higher heating value. In the United States all woodstove
efficiencies should be calculated using the higher heating value.
The best way to achieve optimum efficiencies is to learn the burn characteristic of you appliance and burn well-
seasoned wood. Higher burn rates are not always the best heating burn rates; after a good fire is established a
lower burn rate may be a better option for efficient heating. A lower burn rate slows the flow of usable heat out
of the home through the chimney, and it also consumes less wood.
The top down method of fire building is recommended for this appliance. After making sure that the stove air
intake controls are fully open (completely pull-out towards you), Place the largest pieces of wood on the bottom,
laid in parallel and close together. Smaller pieces are placed in a second layer, crossways to the first. A third layer
of still smaller pieces is laid crossways to the second, this time with some spaces between. Then a fourth layer of
loose, small kindling and twisted newspaper sheets tops off the pile.
OPERATIONAL TIPS
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Get the appliance hot and establish a good coal bed before adjusting to a low burn rate (this may take 30
minutes or more depending on your wood)
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Use smaller pieces of wood during start-up and a high burn rate to increase the stove temperature
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Be considerate of the environment and only burn dry wood
• Burn small, intense fires instead of large, slow burning fires when possible
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Learn your appliance’s operating characteristics to obtain optimum performance
• Burning unseasoned wet wood only hurts your stoves efficiency and leads to accelerated creosote buildup
in your chimney
