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Optima Installation and Operation Manual

Table of content

PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ................................. 6

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1 Safety Information ............................................................................. 6

1.1 Summary of Operation and Maintenance Cautions and Warnings ......................... 6

2 General Information .......................................................................... 7

2.1 Optima 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 Where to store wood ......................................................................................... 14

3.2.7 Judging Firewood Moisture Content ................................................................. 14

3.3 Manufactured Logs ............................................................................................... 15

4 Operating Your Stove ...................................................................... 16

4.1 The use of a fire screen ........................................................................................ 16

4.2 Your First Fires ..................................................................................................... 16

4.3 Lighting Fires ........................................................................................................ 16

4.3.1 Conventional Fire Starting ................................................................................. 17

4.3.2 The Top Down Fire ........................................................................................... 17

4.3.3 Two Parallel Logs ............................................................................................. 18

4.3.4 Using Fire Starters ............................................................................................ 18

4.4 Maintaining Wood Fires ........................................................................................ 18

4.4.1 General Advice ................................................................................................. 18

4.4.2 Ash Removal ..................................................................................................... 19

4.4.3 Raking Charcoal ............................................................................................... 19

4.4.4 Firing Each New Load Hot ................................................................................ 20

4.4.5 Turning Down the Air Supply ............................................................................ 20

4.4.6 Building Different Fires for Different Needs ....................................................... 21

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