Rocket Installation and Operation Manual
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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 on Rocket (DB03185)..............................7
2.1 Appliance performance
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2.2 General Features ...................................................................................................8
2.3 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You..................................................10
2.4 The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency.............................................11
2.5 The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment..............................................11
2.5.1 What is Your New Stove Made Of? ..................................................................11
3 Fuel ...................................................................................12
3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned ..................................................................12
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood................................................................12
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood?...................................................................................12
3.2.2 Tree Species.....................................................................................................12
3.2.3 Log Length........................................................................................................13
3.2.4 Piece Size.........................................................................................................13
3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood.........................................................................................14
3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content..................................................................15
3.3 Manufactured Logs...............................................................................................15
4 Operating Your Stove..............................................................16
4.1 The use of a fire screen........................................................................................16
4.2 Your First Fires.....................................................................................................16
4.3 Lighting Fires........................................................................................................16
4.3.1 Conventional Fire Starting.................................................................................17
4.3.2 The Top Down Fire...........................................................................................17
4.3.3 Two Parallel Logs .............................................................................................17
4.3.4 Using Fire Starters............................................................................................18
4.4 Maintaining Wood Fires........................................................................................18
4.4.1 General Advice .................................................................................................18
4.4.2 Ash Removal.....................................................................................................19
4.4.3 Raking Charcoal ...............................................................................................19
4.4.4 Firing Each New Load Hot................................................................................20
4.4.5 Turning Down the Air Supply ............................................................................20
4.4.6 Building Different Fires for Different Needs.......................................................21
