FMI TF18NE, Owner'S Operation And Installation Manual

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TROUBLESHOOTING
Continued
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
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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.
POSSIBLE CAUSE
1. Heater burning vapors from
paint, hair spray, glues, cleaners,
chemicals, new carpet, etc. (See
IMPORTANT statement above)
2. Low fuel supply (propane/LP only)
3. Gas leak.
See Warning state
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ment at top of page
1. Not enough fresh air is available
2. Low line pressure
3. ODS/pilot is partially clogged
1. Gas leak. See Warning state
-
ment at top of page
2. Control valve or gas control defec-
ive
1. Foreign matter between control
valve and burner
2. Gas leak. See Warning state
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ment at top of page
1. Optional Hand-held remote con-
trol is too close to heater
REMEDY
1. Open window to ven ilate room.
Stop using odor causing products
while heater is running
2. Refill supply tank (propane/LP
only)
3. Locate and correct all leaks (see
Checking Gas Connections
, page
14)
1. Open window and/or door for
ventilation
2. Contact local natural or propane/
LP gas company
3. Clean ODS/pilot (see Cleaning
and Maintenance
, page 34)
1. Locate and correct all leaks (see
Checking Gas Connections
, page
14)
2. Replace control valve or gas
control
1. Take apart gas tubing and remove
foreign matter
2. Locate and correct all leaks (see
Checking Gas Connections
, page
14)
1. Move hand-held remote control
unit farther away from the heater
OBSERVED PROBLEM
Heater produces unwanted odors
Heater shuts off in use (ODS
operates)
Gas odor even when control knob
is in OFF posi ion
Gas odor during combustion
Log set cycles to pilot, but room tem
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perature drops to a lower than ideal
level before log set comes back on