Pre-Lighting Instructions; Lighting Your Stove; Shutting The Stove Off; Diagnostic Features - St. Croix Prescott Series Operation & Maintenance Manual

it isn't needed. However this is not the way to
operate a stove once the Heating Season arrives.
Then a constant source of heat is what you will
be looking for. This is where the "SmartStat"
puts the St. Croix in a different category. The
stove operates on a Thermostat and once the heat
demand has been met the stove will drop into the
#1 Heat Level and pilots there for one hour. If the
thermostat doesn't call for heat during that one-
hour period, the stove will shut down and wait to
re-light itself when the thermostat calls for heat
again. The control board automatically switches
back and forth between a "Piloting Thermostat
System" and a "Fully Automatic Thermostat
System" based on how often the thermostat calls
for heat. This eliminates the On/Off cycle of an
Automatic stove, once the Heating season arrives.

Pre-Lighting Instructions

When lighting your stove for the first time, or any
time you have run out of Pellets, you will need to
fill the hopper. Pellets are fed from the hopper to
the burn pot by an auger. A high torque motor
that is capable of doing SERIOUS harm to
fingers drives the auger. Keep fingers and other
objects away from the auger.
WARNING: The Auger can start at any time
while the stove is running
CAUTION: The Ash Cleanout Rod must be
pushed in to operate the stove. (See Figure 1
on page 2)
WARNING: The Fire Door and Ash Pan Door
must be in the latched position during normal
operation.
Lighting Your Stove. (Refer to Figure 2)
1. Make sure there are pellets in the hopper and
the viewing door and ash pan door are closed.
2. Push the On/Off button on the control board.
(Button #2)
At this point all that needs to be done is to
monitor the burn pot to make sure the stove starts
up properly. Once the On/Off button has been
pushed the Start Up program takes over.
The Start up Program works as follows:
a. The Combustion fan and Room fan come on at
high speed and the control board checks to make
sure the Vacuum switch locks in. (See
Diagnostic features in column to the right.)
b. When the board senses the Vacuum switch the
Combustion fan drops to the #1 setting and the
Room fan shuts off.
c. The Igniter and the Auger come on (the Auger
only runs for 2 minutes). The stove will typically
light in the first 3 - 4 minutes. After 5 minutes
the board checks for "Proof of Fire" and starts
feeding pellets on the #1 setting (See Diagnostic
Features in the column to the right). Once the
board senses P.O.F. the Igniter shuts off and the
stove has started successfully.
d. If the board fails to sense P.O.F. it will repeat
the previous step and continue feeding pellets on
the #1 setting for 5 more minutes.
e. The board will check for P.O.F. one more time.
If the board still fails to sense the Proof of Fire
switch, the stove will go into "Safety shutdown"
(See Diagnostic Features in the column below).
If this happens, repeat steps 1 through 4 from the
section on Lighting Your Stove.
CAUTION: NEVER ADD FIRE STARTER TO
A HOT STOVE.
Shutting The Stove Off (Refer to Figure 2)
1. Press the On/Off switch (2) once; the lights will
go off and the fire will go out in a few minutes. The
board essentially goes into "Safety shutdown".
2. As long as the Exhaust Temperature within the
stove remains above 110°F, the Room Air Fan, the
Combustion Exhaust Fan and the Versa Grate motor
will continue to run. Once the P.O.F. switch drops
out the Combustion Fan runs for another 10 minutes
and finally the stove shuts down completely.
3. NEVER unplug the stove to shut it off. Doing so
may cause a significant amount of smoke to enter
the room.
Diagnostic Features of the Control Board
The #2 LED and the #3 LED lights on the LED
Light bar as show in Figure 2 will flash to give a
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