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cant period of time, we recommend running
it every 6 weeks, so as to avoid moisture
concentrating in the heating elements.
Therefore, should the RCD be released dur-
ing heat-up, the electrical installation must
be checked.
Installation of the sauna heater and con-
trol unit must be undertaken only by an au-
thorized electrician. Without a documented
proof of such installation a warranty is gen-
erally void.
Special advice
By installation of sauna heaters, please pay
attention to the DIN VDE 0100 part 703 or
similar locally applicable national safety
regulations !
The DIN standard makes the following
statement valid in your newest expenditure,
since February 2006, paragraph 703.412.05;
Quotation:
The additional must be planned for all elec-
tric circuits of the Sauna by one or more
fault current protection device (RCDs) with
a calculation difference stream not more
largely than 30 mA, excluded of it is Sauna
heating.
The EN 60335-1 DIN (VDE 0700 part 1):2012-
10 states the following in paragraph 13.2;
quote:
The leakage current may not exceed the fol-
lowing values during operation:
- for stationary heaters of protection class
I 0,75 mA; or 0,75 mA each kW input of the
appliance, depending on the higher value, at
a maximum value of 5 mA.
If the appliance is equipped with a protec-
tive device for leakage current (RCD), please
pay attention to the fact that no other elec-
trical units will be protected by this RCD.
Under current manufacturing technology, it
is not reasonable to use heating elements
for sauna heaters which do not collect
moisture from the surrounding air. It is
therefore possible that a little bit of mois-
ture from the surrounding air may reach the
magnesium-oxide filling in the heating ele
-
ments during transport or storage and may
cause the RCD to release.
In this case the oven must be heated up un-
der supervision of an expert, during which
the PE conductor is not connected. After
about 10 minutes, when moisture has evap-
orated from the heating elements, the oven
must be reconnected to the PE conductor!
If the sauna heater is not in use for a signifi
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