Vermont Castings Defiant Operation Manual page 15

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them straight up. The door of the single door Resolute slides weather you need more heat, simply switch to an updraft
off to the left.
Caution:
If your stove has been operating the doors mode. All the wood in the magazine can now be incorpo~ated
will be hot. Do not touch them unless you are wearing pro- into the primary fire mass, thus producing more heat. Keep In
tective fireplaces gloves. mind that the trade off made for this greatly increased output is
Open burning capability is a major feature of Vermont increased wood consumption and shorter bum times.
Castings stoves and we've tried to make it as practical and
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Unless you are In the room, you shou!d not leave your stQve the room. These practices will prevent too many deposits from
open a~d unatten,ded. Always check first to make sure your building up inside the magazine. Large accumulations of black
screen IS securely
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would be happier at higher temperatures and should occasionally
RECOMMENDATIONS
be ru;h~nu=r~:~igned these stoves we had in mind a hand-
. .. some cast iron heater and fireplace unit. Although they will
All s~oves behave .dlfferently; even a single sto~e will. consume any combustible material, we do not really think of
react differently to different types of wood and chimney,s. It will them as trash incinerators. Excessive amounts of paper and
take time to acc,ustom yo~~lf to your new stove and to ItS greasy or plastic materials may burn too hot, ignite a chimney
re~nses to vanous condluo~s. Remember, our Customer fire, or create a rapid build-up of ash. When using the stove
Service Personnel or Authonzed Deale.rs are always
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phone call to dispose of waste materials, treat it with common sense and
or let~er away If you encounter a ~artlcularly ~rplexlng problem. res ect and be aware of what the stove was designed to do.
LIsted below are a number of Ideas that WIll help you get the p
maximum benefits from your stove. The most exacting situation Wood: The drier the better.
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takes heat to boil off the
occurs when the stove is used arou~d the cl~k as t~e p~mary water in a piece of
green
wood. (There can be over a ton of it in
he,at source. Although these suggesuons are aimed pnmanly at a cord of green wood, or more than 250 gallons.) This lost heat
this usage, they should be helpful to all. is not recoverable. and lowers intenal temperatures, reducing the
likelihood of secondary combustion. Split lengths of dense hard-
Do not add large amounts of fuel to a slow fire and woods should be dried under cover for at least eight months,
leave the setting low. This may smother the fire. Adding large though a year is preferable.
quantiti~s ~f co~d fuel to a slow fire is li~e asking an aut~mobile to go Wood grows outward from the center in a series of con-
up a hili In high gear from a standing start. The .blgger th.e centric cylinders or rings. When wood dries, water moves in
hill, t~e longer t~e running ~tart you need. Allowing the fire the spaces between the cylinders ten times faster than it does
to build up heat IS the running start. across or through the cylinder walls. This means that unsplit
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wood dries only through the ends of the logs. Large and long
Firmly establi~h a strong fire, bef?re closmg the. 10 s should be split to expose the spaces between the rings in
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the baffle, thereby assisting secondary combustion. Wood should not be cut too ~all, as this speeds up
A good bed of coals is necessary to keep the volatiles hot as the gasification process and causes it to burn too quickly. If
they leave the primary combustion chamber. When you want to you are having trouble getting the stove to hold a fire for as
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shut the stove down before going to bed or leaving the house in long as you would like, perhaps your wood is too small.
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the morning, try to let the tempe.rature. build up first. Ide~lly, you Anything over twelve inche,s long and four inches measur~d
should load most of the wood thirty minutes before shutting the across the end of the log will do. The stoves work well with
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down as large a piece of wood as can be fit in. Irregular shapes with
the stove and adjusting your thermostat. Your stove
WIll bum
stubs of branches
that hold
the logs apart are not good, and
cleaner and give you more heat if you follow these steps. rotten wood is the worst. Burning and rotting are similar
chemically; so, in effect, rotten wood is partially consumed and
If you need more heat, remember that your stove is has already given up some, if not most, of its heat value.
truly a combination stove and will operate either in an updraft Under no circumstances should a piece of wood with ice or
or side draft combustion mode. In its horizontal configuration, snow on it ever be put into any stove. The sudden thermal
only a limited amount of wood can actually become part of shock can crack the iron. Leaning an ice-covered piece against
the primary fire mass at any given time. This obviously the stove to melt the ice is also likely to ca.use damage. We do
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reduces the amount of heat generated. If in extremely bitter not warrant our stoves against such abuse.
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