TROUBLESHOOTING

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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 fireplace 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 PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE

REMEDY

Remote does not function

1. Battery is not install. Battery

 

power is low

1.Replace 9-volt batteries in re- ceiver and remote control

Fireplaceproducesaclicking/tick- ing noise just after burners are lit or shut off

1.Metal expanding while heating or contracting while cooling

1.This is common with most fire- places. If noise is excessive, contact qualified service person

Fireplace produces unwanted 1. Fireplace burning vapors

odorsfrom paint, hair spray, glues, cleaners, chemicals, new car- pet, etc. (See IMPORTANT statement above)

2. Low fuel supply (propane/LP only)

3. Gas leak. See Warning statement at top of page

1.Open window to ventilate room. Stop using odor causing products while fireplace is running

2.Refill supply tank (propane/LP only)

3.Locate and correct all leaks (see Checking Gas Connec- tions, pages 18 and 19)

Fireplace shuts off in use (ODS

1. Not enough fresh air is

1.

Open window and/or door for

operates)

 

available

 

ventilation

 

2.

Low line pressure

2.

Contact local natural or pro-

 

 

 

 

pane/LP gas company

 

3.

ODS/pilot is partially clogged

3.

Clean ODS/pilot (see Cleaning

 

 

 

 

and Maintenance, pages 26

 

 

 

 

and 27)

 

 

 

 

Gas odor even when control knob

1. Gas leak. See Warning

1.

Locate and correct all leaks

is in OFF position

 

statement at top of page

 

(see Checking Gas Connec-

 

 

 

 

tions, pages 18 and 19)

 

2.

Control valve defective

2.

Replace control valve

 

 

 

 

 

Gas odor during combustion

1.

Foreign matter between con-

 

 

trol valve and burner

 

2.

Gas leak. See Warning

 

 

statement at top of page

1.Take apart gas tubing and re- move foreign matter

2.Locate and correct all leaks (see Checking Gas Connec- tions, pages 18 and 19)

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