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Please read this
Use and Care Guide
before you do anything else...

This booklet tells you how to install your de­humidifier, use it and clean it. Treat your new de­humidifier with care. Use it only to do what home
dehumidifiers are designed to do.

Contents

Parts and Features .............

Before You Plug It In. ...........

Install Properly ...............

Electrical Requirements ......

Using Your Dehumidifier ........

12 Pint Capacity Model ......

All Other Models .............
Setting the Water Level Control

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Water Disposal

Caring for Your Dehumidifier..

Dehumidifier De-leer Control

If You Need Service or Assistance

I. Before Calling for Assistance

2. If You Need Assistance

3.

4. If You Have a Problem

If You Need Service

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Parts and features

CONTROL
PANEL

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Copy your Model and Serial Numbers here...

If you need service or call with a question, have

this information ready:

1. Complete

plate under the Water pan on the base of the unit). serial Number

2. Purchase date from the sales slip.
Copy this information in these spaces. Keep this

book, your warranty and sales slip together in a
handy place.

Model and Serial Numbers (from the

Model Number

Purchase Date

Service Company Phone Number

REAR GRILLE
(30,40 and 48 Plnt Models Only)

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WATER PAN

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Before you use your dehumidifier

It Is your personal responsibility and obliga-

tion to make sure your dehumldifier:

l Has been properly installed on a floor that is rea-

sonably level.

l Is the right size for the area you want to dehu-

midify.

l Is connected to the right kind of outlet, with the

proper electrical supply and grounding. (Refer
to your “Electrical Requirements:‘)

l Is used only for jobs expected of home dehu-

midifiers.

Install Properly..

12 INCHES

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l Is not used by children or anyone not able to

operate it properly

l Is properly maintained.
l Is used in an area where the room temperature

will not fall below 65°F (18.3”C). [48 Pint Model will
operate in temperatures down to 50°F [lO”C].]

l Do not remove tech sheet which is inside the

cabinet. Your service technician needs this infor­mation.

1.

On most models, two rollers let you easily move
the dehumidifier. Remove the water pan. Tilt unit
forward and rolj to another position.

If your model does not have rollers, pick up the
unit to move it to another position.

2. Allow at least 12 Inches (30.5 cm] of space
around the unit for good air circulation.

3. Keep all outside doors, windows and other
openings closed when dehumidifier is operat-

ing. Humid outdoor air will add to the dehu-

midifier’s operating load.

4. Water pan must be properly positioned, on the
hangers inside the cabinet, when dehumidifier
is operating.

Electrical Requirements

OBSERVE ALL GOVERNING CODES AND ORDINANCES.
Electrical ground is required on this appliance.

A 115 volt, 60 Hz., AC only, 15 or 20 ampere fused electrical supply is required. (Time
delay fuse or circuit breaker is recommended.) It is recommended that a separate circuit
serving only this appliance be provided.

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, REMOVE THE POWER SUPPLY CORD GROUND PRONG.

RECOMMENDED GROUNDING METHOD

For your personal safety, this appliance must be
grounded. This appliance is equipped with a
power supply cord having a 3.prong grounding
plug. To minimize possible shock hazard, the cord
must be plugged into a mating 3.prong ground­ing type wall receptacle, grounded in accord­ance with the National Electrical Code and local
codes and ordinances. If a mating wall recepta­cle is not available, it is the personal responsibility
and obilgation of the customer to have a properly
grounded 3.prong wall receptacle installed by a
qualified electrician.

Do not use an extension cord.

3-PRONG
GROUNDING PLUG

ALTERNATE GROUNDING METHOD

If changing and properly grounding the wall re­ceptacle is impossible and where local codes
permit (consult your electrical inspector], a tem­porary adaptor may be plugged into the existing

2.prong wall receptacle to mate with the 3.prong
power supply cord.

RECOMMENDED.

If this is done, you must connect the grounding
eyeleton the adapterto the wall receptacle cover
plate screw and from this same screw, you must
connecta separate copper ground wire (#I4 min­imum] to a grounded cold water pipe?

ground to a gas supply pipe. Do not connect to
electrical supply until appliance is perma­nently grounded.

THIS HOWEVER, IS NOT

Do not

ELECTRICALLY
GROUNDED METAL
COLD-WATER PIPE

(REMOVE PAINT ETC.)

PLUG

POWER SUPPLY CORD

GROUND ASSEMBLY
(AmACH TO GROUNDED
METAL COLD-WATER PIPE)

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*Cold water pipe must have metal continuity to electrical ground and not be interrupted
by plastic, rubber or other electrically insulating connectors (including water meter or
pump) without adding a jumper wire at these connections.