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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 heater where impurities in air exist may create odors. Cleaning sup- plies, 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 |
Heater produces unwanted 1. | Heater burning vapors from |
odors | paint, hair spray, glues, |
| cleaners, chemicals, new |
| carpet, etc. (See IMPOR- |
| TANT statement above) |
2. | Gas leak. See Warning |
| statement above |
1.Open window and venti- late room. Stop using odor causing products while heater is running
2.Locate and correct all leaks (see Checking Gas Con- nections, page 15)
Heater shuts off in use | 1. | Not enough fresh air is avail- | 1. | Open window and/or door |
(ODS operates) temperature |
| able |
| for ventilation |
drops to a lower than ideal | 2. | Low line pressure | 2. | Contact local propane/LP |
level before log set comes |
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| or natural gas company |
back on | 3. | ODS/pilot is partially | 3. | Clean ODS/pilot (see |
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Gas odor even when control | 1. | Gas leak. See Warning | 1. | Locate and correct all leaks |
knob is in OFF position |
| statement above |
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| nections, page 15) |
| 2. | Control valve defective | 2. | Replace control valve |
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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 |
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Logs set cycles to pilot, but | 1. | Thermostat sensing bulb | 1. | Reposition thermostat |
room temperature drops to a |
| needs to be repositioned |
| sensing bulb (see Optional |
lower than ideal level before |
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| Positioning of Thermostat |
log set comes back on |
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| Sensing Bulb, beginning on |
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