Operating Instructions and Installation Instructions

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4.3. Burning wood
310GX: The best way to control the fire is to completely close the lower air slide in
the ash-door, which you use to get the fire started, and to regulate the air supply
with the air slide in the side-door only. In case the air supply through the this slide
seems insufficient, or if you would like to fan the fire, you can partially open the
lower air slide in the ash-door for a while.
Always keep the stove doors tightly closed. Never let the doors open when the fire is
burning.
Add extra fuel when necessary. Never add too much fuel. It is best to fill the stove
for one third and to top it up on a regular basis.
Always open the filling door slowly and for a short space of time. Before filling up,
the charcoal bed should be carefully
spread open. Check whether the coals
are glowing enough just behind the log
retainer, so that the added fuel will im-
mediately catch fire. If necessary you
can open the lower air slide for a while.
Open stacking will make the logs burn
very intensely, as the oxygen can easily
reach every part of the fire. This method
of stacking is applied when burning
wood for a short while. Compact stack-
ing will make the fire burn slower, as the air can only reach the outer parts of the
fire. This stacking method is best used when burning for a longer while.
Low intensity fires cause tar and creosote to deposit in the chimney after a long
period of time. Tar and creosote are highly combustible substances. Thicker layers
of these substances might catch fire when the temperature in the chimney increases
suddenly and steeply. Therefore it is necessary for the fire to regularly burn very
intensely, so that thin layers of tar and creosote immediately disappear.
Low intensity fires also cause tar to deposit on the stove panes and doors.
When it is not too cold outside it is better to let the stove burn intensely for just a
few hours a day.
4.4. Burning coal
WHEN BURNING CHARCOAL USE ONLY THE AIR SLIDE UNDER THE GRILL.
As soon as the fire is sufficiently stable and there is enough glow, the first shovel of
coals can be put onto the fire. Complete the filling once the coals have caught fire.
Make sure you do not quench the fire by putting too much coals onto it at a time.
Once the fire has burned for a while, adjust the air slide at the bottom of the door.
Before adding some extra coals, open the air slide below completely. Use the sup-
plied shovel, to bring the ashes in the ash plate; then add the coals. After a few
minutes, adjust the air slide. Add some more coals until you can only see the glow
of the previous filling.
When the fire basket or the cast-iron plate fins are red-hot, you are heating too in-
tensely.
open stacking compact stacking