When used with dry wood and a well-drafting chimney system,
modern non-catalytic wood stoves burn fuel efficiently by the precise
control and delivery of primary and secondary air to the fire.



Primary Air is drawn into a front inlet in the stove bottom and directed through a
regulator shutter under the front door before entering the lower fire chamber.

Additional primary air is directed to the top of the front door to act as an air wash
which may prevent extreme soot build-up on the glass panel.

The amount of primary air available to the fire determines the intensity of heat
output and rate of fuel combustion; the greater the amount of air, the greater the
heat output, the faster the wood burns.

The primary air setting also determines the effectiveness of the air wash over the glass;
the higher the setting, the cleaner the glass.

Additional air is separately directed into the top of the fire chamber to support
combustion of exhaust gasses before passing out of the stove.

This unregulated Secondary Air enters through an inlet in the rear of the
stove bottom and is heated as it passes through the rear of the stove into a
two-tiered manifold at the top of the fire chamber.

Additional secondary air is directed through a stainless steel tube built into the
baffle plate hinge. Volatile gases, released unburned from the fuel bed,
rise to the baffle where they are turbulently mixed with the hot, fresh oxygen.

Secondary combustion then occurs before the gases pass into the heat exchange chamber.