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Solution 3.4 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 3.4 Specifications ................................................................................................ 7
2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You ................................................................ 9
2.3 The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency .......................................................... 9
2.4 The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment ......................................................... 10
2.4.1 What is Your New Stove Made Of? ............................................................................. 10
3 Fuel ............................................................................................ 11
3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned .............................................................................. 11
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood ........................................................................... 11
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? ............................................................................................. 11
3.2.2 Tree Species ............................................................................................................... 11
3.2.3 Log Length .................................................................................................................. 12
3.2.4 Piece Size ................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood ................................................................................................... 13
3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content ............................................................................ 13
3.3 Manufactured Logs ......................................................................................................... 14
4 Operating Your Stove .............................................................. 14
4.1 Your First Fires ................................................................................................................ 14
4.2 Lighting Fires .................................................................................................................. 15
4.2.1 Conventional Fire Starting ........................................................................................... 15
4.2.2 The Top Down Fire ...................................................................................................... 15
4.2.3 Two Parallel Logs ........................................................................................................ 16
4.2.4 Using Fire Starters ....................................................................................................... 16
4.3 Maintaining Wood Fires ................................................................................................... 16
4.3.1 General Advice ............................................................................................................ 16
4.3.2 Ash Removal ............................................................................................................... 17
4.3.3 Raking Charcoal .......................................................................................................... 17
4.3.4 Firing Each New Load Hot ........................................................................................... 18
4.3.5 Turning Down the Air Supply ....................................................................................... 18
4.3.6 Building Different Fires for Different Needs .................................................................. 19