Cadel DEMETRA, Installation, Use And Maintenance Manual

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DEMETRA
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Fig. 11 - Wood positioning
• To know the lenght of wood log to use, check the dimensions of stove combustion chamber.
• It is advisable to place the wood in horizontal position (see Fig. 11 page 13 ) and adjust the air flow with the
aid of the register.
• To ignite proper ignitier products can be used.
It is forbidden to use any type of liquid combustible!
It is forbidden to burn wood processing waste containing glue or paint, waste in general
and cardboard!
• Here following some information about the quality of different type of woods:
TYPE OF WOOD QUALITY % PERFORMANCE
Oak Excellent 100
Hornbeam Excellent 100
Ash Very good 92
Maple Very good 91
Birch Good 89
Elm Good 84
Beech Good 80
Willow Sufficient 71
Spruce Sufficient 70
Red deal Fair 67
Larch Fair 66
Lime Worst 57
Poplar Worst 50
Small pieces of wood are easily inflammable and so increase the power of the range. They are the best to ligh
the fire.
The nominal power and the best combustion of the boiler is obtained by using beech logs of medium-big
dimension (as, for ex. 4/5 logs of total weight 8 kg, getting more less 1 hour of full power combustion).