New ( to me ) Quadrafire 5700, how to start?

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FatttFire

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Feb 14, 2008
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Snowbelt, Ohio
I recently bought a Quad 5700 "used" and I need some instruction. I am coming from an old smoke dragon, I think its a Papa Bear, to this HUGE beautiful stove.:cool: So I want some real word experience on how to start the stove. I have the "instructions" from the web site, but I want real world advice. It tells me to put the burn rate control all the way up to high, then push the start up control all the way back. Now I have done this and the fire starts, but if I read it right it is supposed to shut down the start up after approx. 25 min. It never shuts down, I don't have it all the way back to manual, I have it pushed back to the highest level, on "automatic", but it still never comes forward on its own. What am I doing wrong?
 
Is this the ACT or ACC model?
 
ACC, what's the difference between the two?
 
I know the difference now. Does anybody keep the ash dump cover on all the time till they need to use it or do you just leave it off?
 
I have a quad Voyaguer grand and the top down method works great in it. It's amazing how that works. Goes opposite of 30 yrs of building fires in wood heaters. Never too old to learn new trick. Cold in Ga. tonite 4 degrees in mountains.
 
In NE ohio its -7 right now
 
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