Napoleon Fireplaces 1600C-1 - Manuel (Page 22)

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The appliance will emit a slight odour for a few hours. This is a normal temporary condition caused by the
“burn-in” of internal paints and lubricants used in the manufacturing process and will not occur again. Simply
open a window to suffi ciently ventilate the room during the fi rst few hours of operation.
To start, a brisk fi re is required. Place loosely crumpled paper on the grate cover and cover with dry kindling.
Open the air control fully by moving it to the right. Light the paper and leave the door slightly ajar (one inch)
until all kindling is burning. To maintain a brisk fi re, a hot coal bed must be established and maintained.
Slowly add larger wood (2x4 size pieces). Lay the pieces lengthwise from side to side in the hot coal bed with
a shallow trench between, so that the primary air can fl ow directly into this trench and ignite the fuel above.
When the fi re seems to be at its peak, medium sized logs may be added. Once these logs have caught fi re,
carefully close the door. (Closing the door too quickly after refuelling will reduce the fi rebox temperature and
result in an unsatisfactory burn.) Remember it is more effi cient to burn medium sized wood, briskly, and refuel
frequently than to load the appliance with large logs that result in a smouldering, ineffi cient fi re and dirty glass.
As soon as the door is closed, you will observe a change in the fl ame pattern. The fl ames will get smaller and
lazier because less oxygen is getting into the combustion chamber. The fl ames, however, are more effi cient.
The fl ames will remain lazy but become larger again as soon as the castings have been heated thoroughly and
the chimney becomes heated and provides a good draft.
At this point, the roaring fi re that you see when the door is opened is wastefully drawing heated room air up the
chimney—certainly not desirable. So always operate with the door fully closed once the medium sized logs
have caught fi re.
You can now add larger pieces of wood and operate the appliance normally. Once the appliance is entirely hot,
it will burn very effi ciently with little smoke from the chimney. There will be a bed of orange coals in the fi rebox
and secondary fl ames fl ickering just below the top baffl e. You can safely fi ll the fi rebox with wood to the top of
the door and will get best burns if you keep the appliance pipe temperatures between 250 degrees Fahrenheit
(121 degrees Celsius) and 450 degrees Fahrenheit (232 degrees Celsius). A surface thermometer will help
regulate this.
WITHOUT AN APPLIANCE THERMOMETER YOU ARE WORKING BLINDLY AND HAVE NO IDEA OF
HOW THE APPLIANCE IS OPERATING. AN APPLIANCE THERMOMETER OFFERS A GUIDE TO PER-
FORMANCE.
Can’t get the appliance going?
Use more kindling and paper. Assuming the chimney and vent are sized correctly and there is suffi cient
combustion air, the lack of suffi ciently dry quantities of small kindling is the problem. Thumb size is a good
gauge for small kindling diameter.
Can’t get heat out of the appliance?
One of two things may have happened. The appliance door may have been closed prematurely and the appli-
ance itself has not reached optimum temperature. Reopen the door and/or draft control to re-establish a brisk
fi re. The other problem may have been wet wood. The typical symptom is sizzling wood and moisture being
driven from the wood.