Eco Range Range cooker Installation Instructions & User Manual - Trouble Shooting:
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only top grade pellets should be used, preferable made from virgin soft wood. If hard
wood pellets are to be use, a service technician with a gas analyser will be required to
possibly adjust the air/fuel ratio.
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the hopper will require filling from between every 2 days to every month depending
on the time of year/usage. Using the cooker as a room heater for long period will require
more fuel, (but less of you other heating fuel).
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the ash will require emptying about every 10 fills of the hopper. The cooker should be
allowed to cool down for 8 hour (overnight) and the majority of the ash removed using the
vacuum cleaner attachment provided.
Trouble shooting:
In essence a wood pellet stove or cooker is a fairly simple , robust appliance, and they are
not full of parts that fail easily & it is nearly always obvious if one of these parts has been
broken or has failed.
Baffles are made of stainless steel or ‘vermicuboard’: compressed, expanded volcanic rock, a
bit like chip board. If these crack, again it is not a major problem and no harm will occur as
long as they haven’t fallen out exposing the walls behind them. Of course they should be
replaced if excessively cracked or broken, as soon as is possible and these parts all just slot
into place. Spare can be ordered from the manufacturer or cut from a sheet of ‘Skamolex’
using a wood saw & the old broken baffle as a template.
If installed correctly, running problems can only be caused by:
a)
Poor and/or wet fuel
b)
Poor chimney.
Fuel should be the best Grade A pellets 6 or 8mm diameter. These can be bought in bags but
must be kept in a dry storage area and they will absorb moisture and swell up and turn back
to sawdust.
Chimney problems divide into 2 clearly different sections: Down Draught & Lack of
Draught.