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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.
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Heater produces a clicking/ticking noise | 1. | Metal expanding while heating or con- | 1. | This is common with most heaters. If |
just after burner is lit or shut off |
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Heater produces unwanted odors | 1. | Heater burning vapors from paint, hair | 1. | Open window and ventilate room. Stop |
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| using odor causing products while heater |
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| 2. | Gas leak. See Warning statement at | 2. | Locate and correct all leaks (see Check- |
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Heater shuts off in use (ODS operates) | 1. | Not enough fresh air is available | 1. | Open window and/or door for ventilation |
| 2. | Low line pressure | 2. | Contact local natural or propane/LP gas |
| 3. | ODS/pilot is partially clogged |
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| 3. | Clean ODS/pilot (see Cleaning and | ||
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Gas odor even when control knob is in OFF | 1. | Gas leak. See Warning statement at | 1. | Locate and correct all leaks (see Check- |
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| ing Gas Connections, page 12) |
| 2. | Control valve defective | 2. | Replace control valve |
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Gas odor during combustion | 1. | Foreign matter between control valve | 1. | Take apart gas tubing and remove for- |
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| 2. | Gas leak. See Warning statement at | 2. | Locate and correct all leaks (see Check- |
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| ing Gas Connections, page 12) |
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