Aprilaire 4300 User Manual

Media Air Cleaners

Model 4200, 4300 & 4400

Owner’s Manual

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for your recent Aprilaire® Air Cleaner purchase.
We sincerely appreciate your business and are pleased to
add your name to our growing list of customers. With this
purchase, you have invested in the highest quality equipment
currently available. Research Products Corporation is the
largest manufacturer of central air cleaners and humidifiers
and a recognized leader in the heating and air conditioning
industry today.

Please be assured that in addition to product quality, we are
also committed to performance as well as customer satisfaction.

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IMPORTANT: Scheduled replacement of the Aprilaire

filtering

media is necessary. See page 6 for details.

Now, please take a few minutes and read this booklet. This
will familiarize you with the benefits you will receive from the
equipment you just purchased and help you understand the
routine maintenance that will be required. Be sure to register
your warranty with us for our records and your protection.

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Your Aprilaire

Air Cleaner is an investment in healthful
comfort for your family and protection for your home and
furnishings. With this purchase, you have invested in an
air cleaner that is many times more efficient than ordinary
furnace or air conditioning filters with which you may be
familiar. There are many benefits you may expect from your

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Aprilaire

Air Cleaner. This booklet is furnished to acquaint
you with these benefits, and with operation and maintenance
information to insure the high level of performance this high
efficiency air cleaner is designed to provide.

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PERFORMANCE

Common Pollutants

Particle sizes in microns

*

(1 micron = 1/25,400 inch)

*American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering Guide

0.01 0.1 1

POLLENS & SPORES

SMUDGING

DUST

SMOKE

AIRBORNE BACTERIA

51050 100

A whole-house air cleaner, like the Aprilaire model 4200,
4300 or 4400, is installed by your heating and air conditioning
contractor as one of the components in your heating and
cooling system. It cleans the air that circulates through your
home (see Figure 1).

When the heating or cooling equipment turns on, the air in
your home travels through the registers and return duct(s) to
the heating and cooling equipment where it is conditioned
and sent back into the rooms of your house through the supply
ducts. Small particles from numerous sources are suspended
in your home’s air, just as they are suspended in the air
outdoors. The largest of these particles will eventually come
to rest and appear as dust. Smaller particles may come to rest,
but with even the slightest disturbance will re-suspend into
the air. These particles are very small, and come from natural
sources such as dust and pollen and from manmade sources
such as tobacco smoke or exhaust. The air cleaner is installed
on or near the furnace/air handler and removes the particles
that travel with the air that circulates through your heating
and cooling system. Removing these particles keeps the
equipment components clean and more importantly removes
particles from the air you breathe. Particles are measured in
microns, which is a unit of measure used for very small things
(1 micron = 1/25,400 inch). For reference, the diameter of a
human hair is approximately 100 microns. Figure 2 shows the
size of various particles that can be found in the air.

Your model 4200, 4300 or 4400 with genuine Aprilaire

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SelfSeal

filters is a highly efficient air cleaner. The removal
efficiency defines the percent of particles entering the air
cleaner that are trapped (see Table 1).

FIGURE 1

FIGURE 2

Until now, the air cleaner has been a passive component of
your heating and cooling system; when the equipment turned
on to heat or cool your home, the air cleaner was doing its job
whether you were aware of it or not. Your thermostat turns on
your heating and cooling equipment and so, essentially, the
thermostat determined when you clean your air. Your model
4200, 4300 or 4400 air cleaner comes with an exclusive Air
Cleaner Control that allows you to clean your air when you
want! Not only does the Air Cleaner Control allow you to
actively clean the air, it will show you when the air cleaner is
filtering the air and when it is time to change the filter.

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TABLE 1 – Particle Removal Efficiency

Particle Size (microns) Removal Efficiency

1 76%

3 93%

5 91%

7 93%

10 97%

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