Before Your First Fire; Filling The Hopper With Fuel; Starting Your First Fire; Fire Characteristics And Flame Height Adjustment - Quadra-Fire MTVERNON-AE-CSB Owner's Manual

F. Before Your First Fire
• First, make sure your appliance has been properly installed
and that all safety requirements have been met.
• Pay particular attention to the fire protection, venting and
thermostat wall control installation instructions.
• Double check that the ash pan, hopper and firebox are
empty and then close the firebox door.
NOTICE:
The tip of thermocouple must be in contact with the
inside end of the thermocouple cover or missed ignitions can
occur.
G. Filling the Hopper with Fuel
• Check the hopper and make sure it is empty before filling
with fuel.
• Open the cast top hopper lid.
• Do not over fill the hopper. The hopper lid must be com-
pletely closed to maintain proper vacuum and for the
feed motor to operate. An error ICON will appear on the
wall control if the hopper lid is not properly closed.
• Do not leave any part of the fuel bag on the appliance
after filling hopper.
H. Starting Your First Fire
1. Fuel Selection
To start your first fire, you must:
• Select the appropriate fuel on the FUEL SELECTION
screen on the thermostat wall control to match the fuel
you have chosen to burn.
• If the proper fuel is not selected your appliance will not
operate properly.
• For example, if you have selected wood pellets and you
are burning corn, the appliance may not light, it may go
out or overfeed. Figure 9.1.
NOTE: If you are lighting your appliance for the first time:
• The feed tube will be empty and it can take some time to
fill it with fuel before you will see a fire
• Put a handful of fuel in the firepot (priming) to speed up
the process. You can also do this when you have run
completely out of fuel.
FUEL SELECTION
Corn
Utility Pellet
Softwood Pellet
Sunflower Seeds
Wheat
Hardwood Pellet
DONE
Figure 9.1
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2. Comfort Level Selection
Once your fuel is selected, select the temperature at the desired
setting on the SET COMFORT LEVEL screen. Figure 9.2.
Figure 9.2
3. Automatic or Manual Setting
The automatic setting will control the heat output based on
the comfort level selection. The manual setting allows you
to manually control the heat output settings. See page 27,
Ignition Cycles.
NOTE: See the Wall Control Thermostat manual for
detailed instructions.
I. Fire Characteristics and Flame Height
Adjustment
(Feed Rate) A properly adjusted fire will have an active
flame pattern and the flame will rise and fall somewhat.
This is normal.
• On HIGH setting, the flame will extend approximately 8
inches (203mm) out of the firepot. If it is not 8 inches
(203mm) tall, increase the flame height.
• On MEDIUM or LOW setting the flame will be shorter.
• Reduce the flame height if the fire has tall flames with
black tails and seems somewhat lazy. This may also
indicate that the firepot and/or heat exchanger needs
to be cleaned. Refer to Section 4 for Maintenance and
Cleaning Instructions.
Adjusting the Flame Height (Feed Rate)
• Set your appliance to "MANUAL" mode on the wall con-
trol.
• Set the heat output level to HIGH.
• Adjust the flame height using the "FLAME HEIGHT AD-
JUST" screen on the wall control. Figure 9.3.
Figure 9.3
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