EPA method for dummies

[Poindexter]

Can anyone explain to me, using small words and maybe some pictures or drawings, how to load my cold stove so I can more or less see what an EPA certifying lab would see during an instrumented burn?

I am sure I could google it up and wade through pages and pages of legalese, but the actual instructions to the loader should, I hope, fit on one printed page double spaced.

Thanks

 

[begreen]

Do they test on a stone cold stove? I thought they did a pre-burn, but could be wrong. Some labs are pretty good at providing testing details. I was reading this one the other day.
(broken link removed to https://www.truenorthstoves.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/TN20-Series-B-EPA-Test-Report.pdf)

 

[Poindexter]

I am guessing there must be a quantity of hot coals present looking at the run results. And all the tested loads were 13-14 #.

I think some of the furring strip used for spacers have got to be SPF(s), only one of them looks like it might be DFir. And there is an enormous knot in the vertical 2x4 on the right side.