Maine Wood Heat Company ALBIECORE Manuale d'uso - Pagina 5
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Stampa la pagina16) Watch the flame. A clean burn is a happy
looking fire. It will be bright yellow or white
and even blue near the coals once the burn is
well underway. An unhappy fire (too cool, not
enough oxygen) is dark and angry looking.
Too much wood is trying to burn at once under
less than ideal conditions. With a top down burn
and as the throat and firebox heat up, the burn
will also clean up.
B
T
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URN
IME
A full size load can be efficiently burned in 1
1/2 to 2 hours. The same load of wood can be
burned in less than an hour, but much of the heat
generated will be lost up the chimney.
F
D
A
URTHER
AMPER
As the burn progresses, you may be able to close
the damper 2/3 in without seriously affecting the
fire. Slide the damper in until the fire begins to
visibly falter, then pull the damper out a bit and
leave it in this new position.
C
:
OALS
As the fire burns down to coals, the volatile
gasses have largely been consumed. Open
the damper (and by-pass if necessary) and the
loading doors. Rake the coals with a poker
towards the grate. Close the doors, close the
by-pass and readjust the damper, then open
the ash box door draft slide to get a fairly rapid
consumption of the coals. When all the coals are
consumed, close the ash box door draft slide, the
main door draft slides and the shut off damper.
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DJUSTMENT
S
S
:
AFETY
LOT
The shut off damper is equipped with a 5% cut
out safety slot so that the warm chimney will
continue to create a vacuum suction on the
heater, thereby drawing off any carbon monoxide
gases left in the ash box.
A
D
:
SH
UMP
You need not dump ashes after every burn.
When the ashes are a couple inches deep, reach in
when the fire is out and pivot the ash dump plate
to the open position. Rake ashes into the opening
and then close the ash dump.
B
C
:
URN
YCLES
Small heaters in Finland were traditionally
burned once every eight to twelve hours and no
more than 3 times in each 24 hour period. Larger
heaters are often fired by commuters twice in
the evening over a 3-4 hour period and then not
again until the next evening without any stress
problems. If someone is home during the day, a
morning burn and an evening burn will give the
most even heat.
C
:
RACKING
While hairline cracks can occur in heaters, and
cause no safely hazard, larger stress cracks in
heaters are always the result of over firing.
Heaters must never be used on a continuous
fire basis, like a metal wood stove. After a few
hours the surface of the firebox firebrick will be
saturated with heat and unable to move heat
away from the fire as fast as the fire is delivering
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