Installing the optional Harman P52i Air Adapter!

Hello

Even though this fresh air adapter is optional, IHMO it should be mandatory not only the Harman P52i but any fireplace insert, to save pellets and heat and stop uncomfortable drafts created by drawing room air in from the cracks in the house to the burn pot! Here is why?

With an additional 3" liner and chimney top, nice clean fresh air can be drawn into the burn pot using the Harman P52i Air adapter. When this is installed, Roxul (100% Fire Proof Insulation) can be placed on the damper shelf to keep warm heated air in the room from escaping up the chimney! ! !

This stove is very big and quite heavy, has anyone carried it up stairs?

Steps
0. Remove stove from frame if old or in our case remove shipping bolt and seperate frome from stove.
1. Remove original Air Intake flange
2. Screw in top and right side self tapping bolts to hold hew air adapter where orig flange was mounted
3. Must create new hole with self tapper on left side
This is not easy since room blower is in the way.
I found two choices here
a. Remove room blower to get self tapper straight on and screw in.
or
b. Drilll pilot hole on angle, the get sel tapper in
4. Drill two new holes to mount top of air adapter with self tapppers. this was staight forward.
5. Mount 3" flange to P53i Frame for flex liner connection using white lytherm gasket supplied.
6. run liner down chimney. (We tied 4" and 3 " liners together and did both at same time!)
Use separate chimney top and make fresh air lower than flue exhaust chimney cap
Screw fresh air liner to air adapter flange using self tappers. I sealed with silicone, but not neccessary.
7. Add Roxul 100% Fire proof insulation to damper shelf and cut around flex liners to save room heat!
8. Slide stove back in frame

It is a little more work when doing the initial install but well worth it!

Also a good update to save more pellets and stop drafting dirty chimney air amd/or warm room air into the burn pot!

See pics - click to Enlarge:

Pic 1 - Remove Old OEM flange
Pic 2 - Using self tapper supplied, Cutting a new hole with room blower in the way!
Pic 3 - New Rigid Air Adapter
Pic 4 - Mounted Air Adapter 1
Pic 5 - Mounted Air Adapter 2
Pic 6 - 3" Fresh Air Falnge (Note flange can be rotated if liner comes down at angle!
Pic 7 - 3" Liner coming down to P52i Frame for fresh air for burning!

 

Thanks Dexter, that stove is 475 lbs!! However it was easy for the new Escalara Stair Cat! ! !

 

Voila!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRW-VSL-NOI

 

Why buy a Stair Cat when I have a wife?

 

we use lectrotruck's version.....

http://www.lectrotruck.com/index.html

Our first stair climber was an Escalera, but we found it to lack in durability when compared to the Lectrotruck. Just works better for us.

 

Cool, nice work don.

 

they are basically a necessity anymore, given how much these stoves cost, folks predilection towards litigation, workmen's comp claims, etc......just need a good way to get a 500 lb stove up a flight of stairs or two.....

 

Does the lectrotruck have forks to lift a pallet in and out of a truck?

 

it works differently, Don.....you strap the stove to the dolly, wheel it to the back, angle back, then telescope it to the ground (it doesn't have forks, it has a platform very similar to a appliance dolly)...so, yea, you can lift it out of a truck, its what we do all year long. I never was a fan of the cable/crank setup on the escalera, but that's me,

 

Hi LW

I see
With the optional balance box, optional fork and winch and optional caster attachment on the LectroTruck and you got an Escalara!

You do alot more than stoves, but the Escalara might be better for just stoves?
Do you have a seperate fork lift?

 

we only deliver stoves with the Lectro......several hundred per year....our personal preference is the Lectro.....did the Escalero for a few years as well, its just for us, lector seems to work better.....yea, we have forklifts, 6 of them, but don't deliver stoves with them at all....its tough to get the 8' wide lift thru the front door.....maybe if we drive faster on approach?