Operation and Maintenance
6. TROUBLESHOOTING
CAUTION
Don't attempt to repair the air conditioner by yourself, it can cause an electric shock or fire. Please check the following items before asking for repair, it can save your time and money.
Phenomenon | Troubleshooting |
Dot not operate immediately when the air | Once the air conditioner be restarted |
conditioner is restarted. | immediately after turned off, overload |
Waiting | protect switch would make it will run after a 3 |
| |
| delay of minutes. |
There's unusual smell blowing from the outlet | The unit has no peculiar smell by itself. If |
after operation is started. | happened, this is the smell accumulated in the |
| ambient. |
Solution : Clean the air filters (see Pg.16). If the problem still has, the unit required servicing. Hence, please contact with SANYO authorized maintenance center.
Sound of water flow can be heard during | Sometimes there is swoosh, or gurgle while |
operation. | the air conditioner is started, stopped or when |
| the compressor started or stopped running, |
| the sound is due to refrigerant flowing. They |
| are not malfunctions. |
The mist is emitted. | When indoor temp. and humidity are higher, |
| sometimes this phenomenon will happen. |
| This is caused by the room air is swiftly cooled |
| down. After run for a while, indoor temp. and |
| humidity will fall down, the mist will die away. |
Creaking noise can be heard when start or stop the unit.
This is caused by the deformation of plastic due to the change of temperature.
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