Yearly Maintenance & Yearly Cleaning
King Electrical Mfg. Co. 9131 10th Ave So. Seattle, WA 98108 206-762-0400 www.king-electric.com
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Maintenance & Cleaning: Basic maintenance is listed below. All other servicing should be performed by qualified
service personnel once a year. Your heater will give you years of service and comfort with only minimum care. To
assure efficient operation follow the simple instructions below.
WARNING: Turn the electrical power OFF at the electrical panel board (circuit breaker or fuse box) and
lock or tag this panel board door to prevent someone from turning on power while you are working on
this heater. Failure to do so could result in serious electrical shock, burns, or possible death.
Installation Warnings
KTW Mounting options
1. There are no consumer user serviceable parts inside this heater and removing the grill can expose you to electri-
cal wiring that can be an electrical shock hazard. For deeper cleaning or repair contact a Licensed Electrician or
take heater to a servicing or appliance repair station.
2. Turn the electrical power OFF. Circuits are often not marked correctly and turning the wrong breaker off could
mean electricity is still flowing to the heater, even if the heater does not appear to be working. Turn the ther-
mostat till it clicks to verify that there is no power. Once you verify the power is off completely, Turn thermo-
stat down completely and proceed to the next cleaning step.
3. Wipe grille with a moist soapy sponge and dry immediately
4. Using a hair dryer on cool and high, vacuum on blow cycle, or use canned compressed computer air for cleaning,
and direct air into heaters outlet grill, and blow debris back through the element and blower. Do not ever go
past the grill. Vacuum lose debris out of grill with out removing grill. Repeat this for the inlet grill.
5. Turn power back ON at the electrical panel board.
6. Turn thermostat up till it clicks to test heaters improved operation. Some smell of burning dust is normal for a
few minutes. If the smell persists you will need to have it professional service or replaced.
7. If lubrication is required a Service tech should use a 10 weight light oil or anything oil that would work in a sew-
ing machine. Signs that lubrication is required would be excessive glowing, slow motor speed, or squeaking nois-
es.
8. Life expectancy of this product is 6 to 12 years depending on hours of use, proper cleaning and environmental
conditions. Replace any heater that shows signs of age related malfunctioning. If in doubt or you have a concern
about the heater turn off and replace immediately. Delaying the replacement is not recommended.
Before cleaning this heater, the heating element of the heater must be cool.
Figure 2
1.
Heater must be properly installed and mounted before it
is energized or operated.
2.
Do not operate heater with grill or any covers removed.
3. Only mount heater where it is recommended by the manu-
facture or a factory Technician.
4. Do not modify this product in any way that is not instruct-
ed by this installation or a King Factory Technician.
5.
KTW is the only heater that can be turned Vertically.
6.
Inbuilt Thermostat kits T-1and T-2 will regulate the tem-
perature between 40 and 80 degrees F.
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Vertical or horizontal positions can be used with the KTW. Direction of heater installation is im-
portant. Up label arrows must be followed on wall can for vertical or horizontal installation.
On a Vertical installation the blower should be at the top of the heater. Warm air will be directed
to the floor so make sure this area of warm air will not damage any flooring materials.
See Table 5 for vertical installation clearances.
With a Horizontal installation the blower should be on the Left side when facing front grill.
The warm air is directed to the right of the heater at about a 25 degree or less angle out the front.
Minimum vertical installed clearances are in Table 1. and should be followed closely.
Heated air out
Air in
Air in
Air out
Air inlet
Air outlet
direction
Minimum Clearances in Wall
When placed in a wall or a
filler section of a cabinet.
Table 5 Vertical
Front
Top
Bottom Sides
36 in
0 in
2 in
0 in
91 cm
0 cm
5 cm
0 cm
Figure 7
Figure 9
Top view air direction in toe
space installation.
KTW Heater
Air inlet
Air outlet
Side view of
outlet air
direction in
cabinet or wall
installation
Figure 8
