Installation Guide
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INTRODUCTION
This manual describes the installation and operation of the Ashley, APC4000 wood heater. This heater meets the
2015 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's crib wood emission limits for wood heaters sold after May 15, 2015.
Under specic test conditions this heater has been shown to deliver heat at rates ranging from 6,569 to 34,785
Btu/hr.
Thank you for purchasing your pellet burning stove, you are now prepared to burn wood in the most efcient,
convenient way possible. To achieve the safest, most efcient and most enjoyable performance from your stove,
you must do three things: 1) Install it properly; 2) Operate it correctly; and 3) Maintain it regularly. The purpose of
this manual is to help you do all three.
PLEASE read this entire manual before installation and use of this pellet fuel-burning room heater. Failure to follow
these instructions could result in property damage, bodily injury or even death.
Keep this manual handy for future reference.
This stove has been independently tested to ASTM E1509-12 Standard Specication for Room Heaters, Pellet
Fuel Burning Type 1, ULC-S627 Standard for Solid Fuel Room Heaters, and Oregon Administrative Rules for Mobile
Homes (814-23-900 through 814-23-909) and Installation as a Stove Heater.
This pellet stove, when installed, must be electrically grounded in accordance with local codes, or in the absence
of local codes, with the National Electrical Code, ANSI/NFPA 70.
The authority having jurisdiction (such as municipal building department, re department, re prevention bureau,
etc.) should be consulted before installation to determine the need to obtain a permit.
This appliance is designed specically for use only with pelletized wood. It is designed for residential installation
according to current national and local building codes as a free-standing room heater. It is also approved as a
mobile home heater which is designed for connection to an outside combustion air source.
The stove will not operate using natural draft or without a power source for the blower systems and fuel feed
system and must not be burned with any type of coal (see PROPER FUEL).
This stove is designed to provide the optimum proportions of fuel and air to the re in order to burn free of smoke
and soot. Any blockage of the air supply to or from the stove will seriously degrade its performance and will be
evidenced by a smoking exhaust and a sooting window. For best operation the ash content of the pellet fuel
should be less than 1% and the caloric value approximately 8200 BTU/LB. Avoid high ash content fuels because
this will rapidly ll up the burn pot and eventually cut off the combustion air supply.
Commercial and industrial installations of this pellet stoves should not be used since operational control is often
not well managed in these settings.