Enerzone Solution 3.4 Installation And Operation Manual

02-09-2015 INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Solution 3.4 US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PHASE II CERTIFIED WOOD STOVE Safety tested according to ULC S627 and UL 1482 Standards by an accredited laboratory www.enerzone-intl.com Stove Builder International Inc. 250, rue de Copenhague, St-Augustin-de-Desmoures (Quebec) Canada G3A 2H3 After-sale service: 418-908-8002 E-mail: [email protected] READ AND KEEP THIS MANUAL FOR REFERENCE This manual is available for free download on the manufacturer’s web site. It is a copyrighted document. Re-sale is strictly prohibited. The manufacturer may update this manual from time ...

THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING THIS ENERZONE WOOD STOVE As one of North America’s largest and most respected wood stove and fireplace manufacturers, Stove Builder International takes pride in the quality and performance of all its products. We want to help you get maximum satisfaction as you use this product. In the pages that follow you will find general advice on wood heating, detailed instructions for safe and effective installation, and guidance on how to get the best performance from this stove as you build and maintain fires, and maintain your wood heating system. We recommend that our wood burning heart ...

3 Table of content PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ............................... 6 1 Safety Information ..................................................................... 6 1.1 Summary of Operation and Maintenance Cautions and Warnings .................................... 6 2 General Information ................................................................... 7 2.1 Solution 3.4 Specifications ................................................................................................ 7 2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You .......................................................... ...

5 Maintaining Your Wood Heating System ............................... 21 5.1 Stove Maintenance ......................................................................................................... 21 5.1.1 Plated Finish Maintenance ........................................................................................... 21 5.1.2 Cleaning Door Glass .................................................................................................... 21 5.1.3 Door adjustment .......................................................................................................... 22 5.1.4 Replacing t ...

5 Appendix 1: Installing the Optional Door Overlay ..................... 40 Appendix 2: Installing Trims ........................................................ 41 Appendix 3: Installation and Use of Blower and Thermodisc .. 42 Appendix 4: Installation of Secondary Air Tubes and Baffle ... 44 Appendix 5: Exploded Diagram and Parts List .......................... 49 ENERZONE LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY ............................. 52 ...

PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Please see Part B for installation instructions. 1 Safety Information 1.1 Summary of Operation and Maintenance Cautions and Warnings • HOT WHILE IN OPERATION, KEEP CHILDREN, CLOTHING AND FURNITURE AWAY. CONTACT MAY CAUSE SKIN BURNS. GLOVES MAY BE NEEDED FOR STOVE OPERATION. • USING A STOVE WITH CRACKED OR BROKEN COMPONENTS, SUCH AS GLASS OR FIREBRICKS OR BAFFLES MAY PRODUCE AN UNSAFE CONDITION AND MAY DAMAGE THE STOVE. • OPEN THE AIR CONTROL FULLY BEFORE OPENING FIRING DOOR. • OPERATE ONLY WITH DOOR FULLY CLOSED. IF DOOR IS LEFT PARTLY OPEN, GAS AND FLAME MAY BE ...

7 2 General Information 2.1 Solution 3.4 Specifications Fuel Type Cordwood Test Standards (safety) ULC S627 and UL 1482 Test Standard (emissions) EPA Method 28 (40 CFR Part 60) Heating capacity range* 1,000 to 2,700 sq. ft. (93 to 251 m2) Maximum heat output** (EPA test fuel) 60,175 BTU/h (17.64 kW/h) Maximum heat output** (natural hardwood fuel) 100,000 BTU/h (29.31 kW/h) Optimum efficiency 78 % Particulate Emissions 3.9 g/h Test Standard (efficiency) CSA B415.1 Burn Time* 9 to 10 hours Shipping Weight 547 lb (248 kg) Firebox Volume 3.4 cu.ft. (0.104 m3) Maximum Log Length 22" east-west*** Flue Outlet ...

9 2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You Your new Solution 3.4 wood stove is a space heater, which means it is intended to heat the area it is installed in, as well as spaces that connect to that area, although to a lower temperature. This is called zone heating and it is an increasingly popular way to heat homes or spaces within homes. Zone heating can be used to supplement another heating system by heating a particular space within a home, such as a basement family room or an addition that lacks another heat source. Although the stove may be able to heat the main living areas of your house to a ...

2.4 The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment The SBI team are committed to protecting the environment, so we do everything we can to use only materials in our products that will have no lasting negative impact on the environment. 2.4.1 What is Your New Stove Made Of? The body of your stove, which is most of its weight, is carbon steel. Should it ever become necessary many years in the future, almost the entire stove can be recycled into new products, thus eliminating the need to mine new materials. The paint coat on your stove is very thin. Its VOC content (Volatile Organic Components) is very low ...

11 3 Fuel 3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned • GARBAGE OF ANY KIND, • COAL OR CHARCOAL, • TREATED, PAINTED OR COATED WOOD, • PLYWOOD OR PARTICLE BOARD, • FINE PAPER, COLORED PAPER OR CARDBOARD, • SALT WATER DRIFTWOOD, • MANUFACTURED LOGS CONTAINING WAX OR CHEMICAL ADDITIVES, • RAILROAD TIES, • LIQUIDS SUCH AS KEROSCENE OR DIESEL FUEL TO START A FIRE. 3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood 3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? Good firewood has been cut to the correct length for the stove, split to a range of sizes and stacked in the open until its moisture content is reduced to 15 to 20 per ...

3.2.3 Log Length Logs should be cut about 1” (25 mm) shorter than the firebox so they fit in easily. Pieces that are even slightly too long make loading the stove very difficult. The most common standard length of firewood is 16” (400 mm). The pieces should be a consistent length, with a maximum of 1” (25 mm) variation from piece to piece. 3.2.4 Piece Size Firewood dries more quickly when it is split. Large unsplit rounds can take years to dry enough to burn. Even when dried, unsplit logs are difficult to ignite because they don’t have the sharp edges where the flames first catch. Logs as small ...

13 3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood Firewood that is not dry enough to burn is the cause of most complaints about wood inserts. Continually burning green or unseasoned wood produces more creosote and involves lack of heat and dirty glass door. See Section 5: Maintaining your wood heating system for concerns about creosote. Here are some things to consider in estimating drying time: • firewood takes a long time to dry • firewood bought from a dealer is rarely dry enough to burn, so it is advisable to buy the wood in spring and dry it yourself • drying happens faster in dry weather than in damp, maritime clim ...

3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content You can find out if some firewood is dry enough to burn by using these guidelines: • cracks form at the ends of logs as they dry • as it dries in the sun, the wood turns from white or cream coloured to grey or yellow, • bang two pieces of wood together; seasoned wood sounds hollow and wet wood sounds dull, • dry wood is much lighter in weight than wet wood, • split a piece, and if the fresh face feels warm and dry it is dry enough to burn; if it feels damp, it is too wet, • burn a piece; wet wood hisses and sizzles in the fire and dry wood does not. Yo ...

15 4 Operating Your Stove 4.1 Your First Fires Two things will happen as you burn your first few fires; the paint cures and the internal components of the stove are conditioned. As the paint cures, some of the chemicals vaporize. The vapors are not poisonous, but they do smell bad. Fresh paint fumes can also cause false alarms in smoke detectors. So, when you first light your stove, be prepared by opening doors and/or windows to ventilate the house. As you burn hotter and hotter fires, more of the painted surfaces reach the curing temperature of the paint. The smell of curing paint does not disappear until ...

4.2.2 The Top Down Fire The top down fire starting method solves two problems with the conventional method: first, it does not collapse and smother itself as it burns; and second, it is not necessary to build up the fire gradually because the firebox is loaded before the fire is lit. A top down fire can provide up to two hours of heating or more. The top down method only works properly if the wood is well-seasoned. Start by placing three or four full-sized split pieces of dry firewood in the firebox. Next, place 4 or 5 more finely split pieces of firewood (2” to 3” [50 mm to 75 mm] in dia.) on the b ...

17 Wood burns best in cycles. A cycle starts when a new load of wood is ignited by hot coals and ends when that load has been consumed down to a bed of charcoal about the same size as it was when the wood was loaded. Do not attempt to produce a steady heat output by placing a single log on the fire at regular intervals. Always place at least three, and preferably more, pieces on the fire at a time so that the heat radiated from one piece helps to ignite the pieces next to it. Each load of wood should provide several hours of heating. The size of each load can be matched to the amount of heat needed. When y ...

Remove ash first, and then rake charcoal towards the front of the firebox before loading so that it will ignite the new load. 4.3.4 Firing Each New Load Hot Place the new load of wood on and behind the charcoal, and not too close to the glass. Close the door and open the air control fully. Leave the air control fully open until the firebox is full of flames, the wood has charred to black and its edges are glowing red. Firing each load of wood hot accomplishes a few things: • drives the surface moisture from the wood, • creates a layer of char on the wood, which slows down its release of smoke, • h ...

19 If the flames get small and almost disappear when you turn down the air, you have turned down the air too early, or your firewood is wetter than it should be. With good fuel and correct air control use, the flames should slow down, but should stay large and steady, even as the air supply is reduced. 4.3.6 Building Different Fires for Different Needs Using the air control is not the only way to match the stove’s heat output to the heat demand. Your house will need far less heat in October than in January to be kept at a comfortable temperature. If you fill the firebox full in fall weather, you will eit ...

4.3.6.4 Maximum Burn Cycle Times The burn cycle time is the period between loading wood on a coal bed and the consumption of that wood back to a coal bed of the same size. The flaming phase of the fire lasts for roughly the first half of the burn cycle and the second half is the coal bed phase during which there is little or no flame. The length of burn you can expect from your stove, including both the flaming and coal bed phases, will be affected by a number of things, such as: • firebox size, • the amount of wood loaded, • the species of wood you burn, • the wood moisture content, • the siz ...