Specifications
Solution 1.8 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 1.8 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 ......................................................... 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 ............................................................................................ 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