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. Fol- low the gas supplier’s instructions.
•If you cannot reach your gas supplier, call the fire department.
IMPORTANT: Operating appliance 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 | ||
Appliance produces a clicking/ | 1. | Metal expanding while | 1. | This is common with most |
ticking noise just after burners |
| heating or contracting while |
| appliances . If noise is |
are lit or shut off |
| cooling |
| excessive, contact qualified |
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Appliance produces unwanted | 1. | Appliance burning vapors | 1. | Open window to ventilate |
odors |
| from paint, hair spray, |
| room. Stop using odor causing |
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| glues, cleaners, chemicals, |
| products while appliance is |
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| new carpet, etc . (See |
| running |
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| IMPORTANT statement |
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| 2. | Low fuel supply (propane/LP | 2. | Refill supply tank (propane/LP |
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| 3. | Gas leak. See Warning | 3. | Locate and correct all leaks (see |
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| Checking Gas Connections, |
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| page 8) |
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Appliance shuts off in use | 1. Not enough fresh air is avail- | 1. | Open window and/or door for | |
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| ventilation |
| 2. | Low line pressure | 2. | Contact local natural or |
| 3. | Pilot is partially clogged |
| propane/LP gas company |
| 3. | Clean ODS/pilot (see Cleaning | ||
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| and Maintenance, page 12) |
Gas odor even when control knob is in OFF position
1.Gas leak. See Warning statement at top of page
2.Control valve or gas control defective
1.Locate and correct all leaks (see Checking Gas Connections, page 8)
2.Replace control valve or gas control
Gas odor during combustion | 1. | Foreign matter | between | 1. | Take apart gas tubing and |
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| control valve and burner |
| remove foreign matter | |
| 2. | Gas leak. See Warning | 2. | Locate and correct all leaks (see | |
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| Checking Gas Connections, |
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| page 8) |
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