Napoleon EPA 1100 Installation And Operating Instructions Manual

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25W415-0763 / B / 10.28.11You can now add larger pieces of wood and operate the appliance normally. Once the appliance is entirely hot,it will burn very efficiently with little smoke from the chimney. There will be a bed of orange coals in the fireboxand secondary flames flickering just below the top firebrick. You can safely fill the firebox with wood to the topof the door and will get best burns if you keep the chimney connector temperatures between 250 degreesFahrenheit (120 degrees Celsius) and 450 degrees Fahrenheit (270 degrees Celsius). A surface thermometerwill help regulate this.Without a appliance thermometer, you are working blindly and have no idea of how the appliance is operat-ing! An appliance thermometer offers a guide to performance and should be located 14” above the flue collar.Install the thermometer according to manufacturers instructions.Can’t get the fire going?Use more kindling and paper. Assuming the chimney and vent are sized correctly and there is sufficient com-bustion air, the lack of sufficiently dry quantities of small kindling is the problem. Thumb size is a good gaugefor small kindling diameter.Can’t get heat out of the appliance?One of two things may have happened. The appliance door may have been closed prematurely and the appli-ance itself has not reached optimum temperature. Reopen the door and/or draft control to re-establish a briskfire. The other problem may have been wet wood. The typical symptom is sizzling wood and moisture beingdriven from the wood.7.1 AIR CONTROLDraft is the force which moves air from the firebox up through thechimney. The amount of draft in your chimney depends on thelength and diameter of chimney, local geography, nearby obstruc-tions and other factors including the amount of heat generated bythe fire which can be measured by an appliance thermometer.Adjusting the air control regulates the temperature. The draft canbe adjusted from a low burn rate with the handle in fully, to a fastburn rate with the handle fully out.Inadequate draft may cause back-puffing into the room through theappliance and chimney connector points and may cause plugging of the chimney. Too much draft may causean excessive temperature in the appliance, glowing red appliance parts or chimney connectors or an uncon-trollable burn which can lead to a chimney fire or permanent damage to the appliance.Do not operate your appliance for longer than 30 minutes with the draft control on “HIGH” (fully open).ASH LIP7.2 FIRE EXTINGUISHERS / SMOKE DETECTORS91.1All homes with a solid fuel burning appliance should have at least one fire extinguisher in a central location,known to all, and at least one smoke detector in the room containing the appliance. If it sounds an alarm,correct the cause but do not de-activate or relocate the smoke detector.