Napoleon HYBRID 150 Operating Instructions Manual

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W415-0910 / A / 09.16.10538.6 DRAFT CONTROLDraft is the force which moves air from the appliance up through the chimney. The amount of draft in yourchimney depends on the length of the chimney, local geography, nearby obstructions and other forces.Adjusting the draft control regulates the temperature. The draft can be adjusted via the thermostat from a lowburn rate with the air control on the low setting to a fast burn rate with the air control on the high setting.Inadequate draft may cause back-puffing into the room and may cause plugging of the chimney. Too muchdraft may cause an excessive temperature in the appliance, glowing red appliance parts or an uncontrollableburn which can all lead to a chimney fire or a permanent damage to the appliance.ALWAYS OPERATE THIS APPLIANCE WITH THE FIRE BOX DOOR CLOSED AND LATCHED EXCEPTDURING START-UP AND RE-FUELING.Roll up some newspaper, light it and place it near the appliance flue until the chimney begins to draw. When afire is burning, open the door slowly to avoid drawing smoke into the room.A properly installed Napoleon appliance should not smoke.If yours does, check the following: Has the chimney had time toget hot? Are the air intake hoods blocked closed? Is the smokepassage blocked anywhere in the appliance or chimney? Is thesmoke flow impeded by too long a horizontal pipe or too manybends? Is it a weak draft perhaps caused by a leaky chimney,a cold outside chimney, too short a chimney, or a chimney tooclose to trees or a higher roof?• Closing the doors too quickly after refuelling will reduce the firebox temperature and may result inan unsatisfactory burn.• As soon as the doors are closed, you may (if glass door is installed) observe a change in the flame pattern.The flames will get smaller and lazier because less oxygen is getting into the combustion chamber. Theflames, however, are more efficient. The flames will remain lazy but become larger again as soon as thefirebricks have been heated thoroughly and the chimney becomes heated and provides a good draft.• With the doors opened the fire is wastefully drawing heated room air up the chimney, certainly notdesirable. Always operate with the doors fully closed once the medium sized logs have caught fire.• You can now add larger pieces of wood and operate the appliance normally. Once the appliance isentirely hot, it will burn very efficiently with little smoke from the chimney. There will be a bed of hotcoals in the firebox so you can safely fill the firebox with wood to the bottom of the secondary air tubes.Can't get the appliance operating? Use more kindling and paper.Assuming the chimney and vent are sized correctly and there is sufficient combustion air, the lack of sufficientlydry quantities of small kindling is the problem. Thumb size is a good gauge for small kindling diameter.Can't get heat out of the appliance? One of two things may have happened. The appliance door may havebeen closed prematurely and the appliance itself has not reached optimum temperature.Re-open the door and/or draft control to re-establish a brisk fire. The other problem may have been wet wood.The typical symptom is sizzling wood and moisture being driven from the wood.NOTEDifferences in the chimney heightand draft may lower overall burntimes.