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while all three sizes burn just as well.
shaker handle allows for greater safety from burns,
and the convenience of needing no extra tools.
OTHER GENERAL
OPERATING GUIDELINES
Be sure children are advised of the danger of
boilers, and keep them away from the boiler.
Always keep clothing like boots, shoes, mi=ens, hats
and coats at least 3 feet away from the stove. Never
let unsupervised children operate a boiler.
Keep kindling wood and logs at least 3 feet away
from the boiler.
NEVER use any liquid 9re starter or highly
Eammable substance to light your boiler. ALWAYS
instruct small children to stay away from the boiler
while you are lighting it.
ALWAYS check for combustible materials
around your stove before leaving the house or going
to bed at night and remove immediately.
DO NOT BURN GREEN WOOD in your boiler.
You will be wasting fuel and increasing the danger
of a chimney 9re due to large amounts of creosote
produced by green wood. You can get as much as
40% more heat from a log simply by le=ing it dry
out. Dry wood is more e<ective for starting coal
9res.
e best type of fuel for your Legacy Stoves
boiler is anthracite coal in the nut size. Larger coal
may result in more air Eow than is desired and
di:culty in controlling the 9re. Continuous
operation on coal will limit the buildup of creosote
in the stovepipe. Exhaust produced by burning
Anthracite coal will chemically react with creosote
and loosen it from the chimney liner and Eue
connecting pipe. You can then easily remove this
material from the pipe and the chimney cleanout.
If you have a metal chimney, tap it from time to
time and listen for a loose ra=ling. If audible, this
sound indicates that Ey ash or creosote is building
up. Cleaning the chimney and/or connecting pipe is
required.
Operation During a Power Failure
A non powered dump zone or other gravity loop
provision is recommended for dissipating heat
e external
during a power outage.
earlier section of the manual. Of chief concern is
lack of water circulation that can occur when there
is no power for circulator pumps and zone valves.
Alternately, backup power may be used to both
power the controls and circulators.
option for providing continued heating during an
extended outage. Whatever means are used, it is
important that the system works even when
una=ended to guard against overheating. Backup
power must be provided in a way that satis9es local
code requirements and prevents backfeeding of
electricity into the power grid.
Note: If backup power is provided by a generator,
always operate the generator well outside the
home to avoid carbon monoxide in the home.
CONDITIONING OF BOILER WATER
Proper treatment of make up water and boiler
water are necessary to prevent scale or other
deposits and corrosion within the boiler.
absence of adequate external and internal
treatments can lead to operation upsets or total
boiler failure. Where a choice is available,
pretreatment of the water externally to the boiler is
always preferred and more reliable than treatment
within the boiler.
Instructions for feed water treatment as prepared
by a competent feed water chemist should be
followed. Do not experiment with homemade
treatment methods or compounds.
Representative samples of feed water and boiler
water need to be analyzed periodically to ensure
that they are in speci9cation.
and guidelines are to be used in conjunction with
the advice of a water treatment specialist.
Ph
e Ph value of your boiler water is a number
between zero and fourteen. Values below seven are
acidic while values above seven are basic.
e Ph factor is the most important factor
inEuencing the scale forming or corrosive
tendencies of boiler water. It should be adjusted to
between a minimum of 10.5 and a maximum of 11.0
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