TROUBLE-

SHOOTING

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WARNING

If you smell gas

Shut off gas supply.

Do not try to light any appliance.

Do not touch any electrical switch; do not use any phone in your building.

Immediately call your gas supplier from a neighbor’s phone. Follow the gas supplier’s instructions.

If you cannot reach your gas supplier, call the fire department.

IMPORTANT: Operating heater where impurities in air exist may create odors. Cleaning supplies, paint, paint remover, cigarette smoke, cements and glues, new carpet or textiles, etc., create fumes. These fumes may mix with combustion air and create odors. These odors will disappear over time.

OBSERVED

POSSIBLE

 

 

 

PROBLEM

CAUSE

REMEDY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heater produces a

1.

Metal expanding while

1.

This is common with

clicking/ticking noise

 

heating or contracting

 

most heaters. If noise is

just after burner is lit

 

while cooling

 

excessive, contact

or shut off

 

 

 

qualified service person

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heater produces

1.

Heater burning vapors

1.

Open window and

unwanted odors

 

from paint, hair spray,

 

ventilate room. Stop using

 

 

glues, cleaners, chemi-

 

odor causing products

 

 

cals, new carpet, etc.

 

while heater is running

 

 

(See IMPORTANT

 

 

 

 

 

statement above)

 

 

 

 

2.

Gas leak. See Warning

2.

Locate and correct all leaks

 

 

statement at top of

 

(see Checking Gas Con-

 

 

page

 

nections, page 17)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heater shuts off in use

1.

Not enough fresh air is

1.

Open window and/or door

(ODS operates)

 

available

 

for ventilation

 

2.

Low line pressure

2.

Contact local natural gas

 

 

 

 

company

 

3.

ODS/pilot is partially

3.

Clean ODS/pilot (see

 

 

clogged

 

Cleaning and Mainte-

 

 

 

 

nance, page 23)

 

 

 

 

 

Gas odor even when

1.

Gas leak. See Warning

1.

Locate and correct all leaks

control knob is in OFF

 

statement at top of

 

(see Checking Gas Con-

position

 

page

 

nections, page 17)

 

2.

Control valve defective

2.

Replace control valve

 

 

 

 

 

Gas odor during

1.

Foreign matter between

1.

Take apart gas tubing and

combustion

 

control valve and burner

 

remove foreign matter

 

2.

Gas leak. See Warning

2.

Locate and correct all leaks

 

 

statement at top of

 

(see Checking Gas Con-

 

 

page

 

nections, page 17)

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Desa CGD3924N installation manual Gas leak. See Warning