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Note: Home owners generally prefer to oper-
ate their heater with the chimney damper
closed. This will put all the heat into the room.
However, there may be times you will desire
the full flames of the HI heat setting but will
find the heat output excessive. You can open
the chimney damper (if you have one) fully or
partially to release some of the heat.
WARNING: Damper handle
will be hot if heater has been
running.
1. STOP! Read the safety information,
page 18.
2. Make sure equipment shutoff valve is
fully open.
3. Press in and turn control knob clockwise
to the OFF position.
4. Wait
five (5) minutes to clear out any gas.
Then smell for gas, including near the floor.
If you smell gas, STOP! Follow “B” in the
safety information, page 18. If you don’t
smell gas, go to the next step.
5. Slightly depress and turn control knob
counterclockwise
to the PILOT
position. Keep control knob pressed in
for five (5) seconds (see Figure 23).
Note: You may be running this heater
for the first time after hooking up to gas
supply. If so, the control knob may need
to be pressed in for 30 seconds or more.
This will allow air to bleed from the gas
system.
6. With control knob pressed in, press and
release ignitor button. This will light pilot.
The pilot is attached to the burner. If
needed, keep pressing ignitor button until
pilot lights.
Note: If pilot does not light, contact a
qualified service person or gas supplier for
repairs. Until repairs are made, light pilot
with match. To light pilot with match, see
Manual Lighting Procedure, page 20.
Figure 23 - Control Knob and Ignitor
Button Location
Control Knob
Ignitor Button
OPERATION
Continued
MANUALLY-CONTROLLED MODELS
7. Keep control knob pressed in for 30 sec-
onds after lighting pilot. After 30 seconds,
release control knob.
• If control knob does not pop out when
released, contact a qualified service
person or gas supplier for repairs.
Note: If pilot goes out, repeat steps 3
through 7.
8. Slightly depress and turn control knob
counterclockwise
to the HI position.
The burner should light. Set control knob
to any heat level between HI and LO.
9. To leave pilot lit and shut off burners only,
turn control knob clockwise
to the
HI position then press in and turn clock-
wise
to PILOT position.
CAUTION: Do not try to ad-
just heating levels by using the
equipment shutoff valve.
VARIABLE CONTROL
OPERATION
The variable control valve can be set to any
heat setting and flame height desired, by sim-
ply turning the control knob until that setting
is attained. Even the lowest setting provides
realistic, dancing yellow flames. Selecting
higher settings produces greater heat output.
This results in increased heating comfort.
WARNING: Do not operate
heater between PILOT and HI
positions.
CAUTION: Do not try to ad-
just heating levels by using the
equipment shutoff valve.
TO TURN OFF GAS
TO APPLIANCE
1. Press in and turn control knob clockwise
to the HI position.
2. Turn the control knob clockwise
to
the PILOT position.
3. Press in control knob and turn clockwise
to the OFF position.
4. Close equipment shutoff valve (see Figure
17, page 16).