5.6. USING WOOD > ADDING LOGS
To prevent smoke fumes from entering the room while adding wood and to ensure a rapid recovery of the
hearth, do as follows:
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Refill the appliance only when there is no longer an ember bed.
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Set the UPPER AIR SUPPLY to maximum.
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Open the door slowly and leave it ajar for 30 seconds. Then open it completely and place
the fresh logs onto the embers.
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Closet he hearth door.
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While the fire starts up again, set it to the desired intensity with the UPPER AIR SUPPLY
control (or use the remote control: press the OFF/LO button).
5.7. USING WOOD > CONTINUOUS FIRE
With quality wood such as oak or very dry beech wood, it is possible to have a fi re burning continuously
for 8-10 hours or even more. To build a slow fi re that can last a long time while at the same time keeping
the window clean:
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Refill the appliance in the manner described above. Do not use round pieces of wood or logs that have
not been split as they risk rolling against the glass pane and dirtying it.
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Set the UPPER AIR SUPPLY to maximum.
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Leave it at maximum until the fi re is burning strongly.
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Then lower the intensity to almost minimum, and if your stove has the CATALYTIC
HYBRID WOODBOX system, close the by-pass (Fig. 14). Protect your hands and
use the poker for such operation.
(It is not advised to completely close the air inlet, instead leave it slightly open to
encourage the self-cleaning of the glass pane)
In the event that your chimney has a strong draw, it would be necessary to close the air inlet more than
with a chimney with a weak draw. See also the section on "Setting the minimum air intake".
5.8. SELF-CLEANING OF THE WINDOW
Your appliance is equipped with an integrated glass pane cleaning system ("Airwash") which uses hot air
to minimalize the marks on the glass pane. If you use a dry fuel, a large part of the tar deposited on the
window will burn and disappear when the appliance is running at a high temperature.
If marks appear on the glass pane (after a long, slow burning fi re for example), follow this procedure to
quickly clean the glass pane:
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Set the UPPER AIR SUPPLY to maximum.
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Set the LOWER AIR SUPPLY control to a quarter open. This
setting allows a little air to enter under the fire as well as the
usual preheated air used for wood combustion.
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Once the majority of the marks have disappeared, reset the
controls to their original positions.
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