TESTING:
1.If using an optional power draft, check the draft blower by turning the room thermostat up high enough so that the draft blower turns on. Then lower the thermostat setting until you hear it shut off.
2.Use a sheet of newspaper to test your draft by placing it inside the furnace and lighting it.
With completion of the tests above, you are ready to light the furnace. Follow the operating steps.
STARTING A WOOD FIRE
Using Motorized Natural Draft
CAUTION: Never use gasoline, gasoline-type lantern fuel, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid, or similar liquids to start or "freshen up" a fire in the furnace. Keep all such liquids well away from the furnace while it is in use.
1.Turn up thermostat to open motorized damper.
2.Open spin draft cap on ash door.
3.Pull the slide baffle rod to the front position.
4.Open the fuel load door and light fire using kindling and several sheets of newspaper, then close the furnace door. The furnace door should remain closed for 5 to 10 minutes in order to establish the fire. If the fire has established, you are ready to load the furnace.
CAUTION: To prevent flame and smoke spillage, the slide baffle must be pulled out and the fuel door must be cracked for ten seconds before being fully opened.
Do not over fire your furnace! After you have become familiar with its operation, you should know how much wood to use.
4.Load the furnace, close the load door and push the slide baffle rod to rear.
5.Close the spin draft cap on ash door.
6.The motorized natural draft cycles on demand from the U.S. Stove wall thermostat. Setting the thermostat four degrees higher that your existing thermostat is recommended.
During operation, the motorized natural draft remains open until the thermostat temperature setting is reached.
CAUTION: To avoid excessive temperatures, do not operate with fuel door or ash pan open.
STARTING A WOOD FIRE
Using Forced Air Draft
Shut off FAD when fuel door is open.
CAUTION: Never use gasoline, gasoline-type lantern fuel, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid, or similar liquids to start or "freshen up" a fire in the furnace. Keep all such liquids well away from the furnace while it is in use.
1.Open spin draft cap on ash door.
2.Pull the slide baffle rod to the front position.
3.Open the fuel load door and light fire using kindling and several sheets of newspaper, then close the furnace door. The furnace door should remain closed for 5 to 10 minutes in order to establish the fire. If the fire has
established, you are ready to load the furnace.
CAUTION: To prevent flame and smoke spillage, the slide baffle must be pulled out and the fuel door must be cracked for ten seconds before being fully opened.
Do not over fire your furnace! After you have become familiar with its operating, you should know how much wood to use.
4.Load the furnace, close the load door and push the slide Baffle rod to rear.
5.Close the spin draft cap on ash door.
6.The forced air draft cycles on demand from the
wall thermostat. Setting the U.S. Stove thermostat four degrees higher than your existing thermostat is recommended. In operation, the power draft blower will run until the U.S. Stove thermostat temperature setting is reached. The draft regulator on the forced air draft is preset at the factory and should require no adjustment.
CAUTION: To avoid excessive temperatures, do not operate with fuel door or ash pan open.
STARTING A COAL FIRE
If you burn coal a Forced Air Draft is required.
Shut off FAD when fuel door is open.
✓Open smoke pipe damper all the way. Open all draft controls on your 1600/1800. Pull the slide baffle forward.
✓Place about 10-15 lbs. of coal in on the shaker grates. It should come up to about half of the first firebrick level.
✓Place crumpled paper over the coal and criss-cross a couple handfuls of dry kindling wood 3/4" in thickness on top of paper.
✓Ignite the paper and close loading door. Wait about 30 minutes until coal fire is established before adding more coal. NOTE: NEVER load coal over the level of firebrick.
✓Close by-pass damper and set all draft controls to your own needs. It may take 3 to 4 coal fires to determine how your local coal and the Hotblast Furnace reacts together — adjusts drafts accordingly.
✓Loading with a good bed of coals in the morning — open by-pass damper.
1.In normal shaking, only rock the grates a small amount to sift ash through.
2.Remove all ashes every day from ash pit.
CAUTION: Ashes should be placed in a metal container with a tight fitting lid. The closed container of ashes should be placed on a non-combustible floor or on the ground well away from all combustible materials pending final disposal. If the ashes are disposed of by burial in soil or otherwise locally dispersed, they should be retained in the closed container until all coals have thoroughly cooled.
3.With your poker, push hot burning embers to the rear of the unit and add green coal in front. NEVER load over height of firebrick. This can result in damage to your furnace and home.
4.Close by-pass damper.
✓Too much draft air will cause clinkering of coal and will waste heat up the chimney. Shut draft down to as low a point as you can and still heat your home.
1.NOTE: Never stand in front of loading door when opening it. Stand to the side.
