Aprilaire 5000 Owners Manual

Model 5000 Electronic Air Cleaner

Owner’s Manual

Model 5000 Safety, Operating and Maintenance Instructions

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WARNING

• 120 Volts may cause serious injury from electrical shock. Disconnect power to the air cleaner before servicing.

• Arcing in electrical components may cause an explosion. Do not install unit where explosive gasses will be present.

• To reduce the risk of electrical shock, this equipment has a grounding-type (three prong) plug. This plug will fit
only into a grounding-type power outlet. If the plug does not fit into the outlet, contact qualified personnel to install
the proper outlet. Do not alter this plug in any way.

• To reduce the risk of electrical shock, locate product so that the power cord can be plugged into an electrical
outlet without the use of an extension cord.

CAUTION

Do not plug any other device into the outlet in which the air cleaner is plugged. This is a current sensitive outlet. Damage
to circuit components may occur if a device other than the air cleaner is operated from the air cleaner outlet.

Thank you for your recent purchase of an Aprilaire® Electronic
Air Cleaner. 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 available. Absolutely no other whole-house air
cleaner on the market today can provide cleaner, healthier
indoor air. Research Products Corporation is one of the largest
manufacturers of indoor air comfort products and a recognized
leader in the heating and air conditioning industry.

In addition to product quality and performance, we’re also
committed to customer satisfaction.

IMPORTANT: Scheduled replacement of the Aprilaire
Electronic Air Cleaner filtering media and cleaning
of the control electrode is necessary. See page 6 for
details.

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. You can do
this by registering on line at www.aprilaire.com/warranty.

Your Aprilaire Electronic Air Cleaner delivers the cleanest,
healthiest air ever available from a whole-house air cleaner!
It is an investment in healthful comfort for your family and
protection for your home and furnishings.

Your Aprilaire Electronic Air Cleaner features patented,
breakthrough “electrically enhanced air filtration” technology
that provides a unique combination of both electronic and
media air cleaner qualities. It permanently traps even the
smallest particles so they cannot re-enter the air stream.

To obtain service parts and/or replacement media, please proceed with any of the following options:

• Call the installer of your Aprilaire Electronic Air Cleaner. This information is often found on your equipment.

• Call your heating and air conditioning contractor.

• Use our Dealer Locator at www.aprilaire.com.

• Look for the Aprilaire brand name in the Yellow Pages under air cleaning and purifying equipment.

• Look in the Yellow Pages under heating and air conditioning contractors. Many contractors can order service

parts or media replacements for you.

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PERFORMANCE

A whole-house air cleaner, like the Aprilaire model 5000 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.

FIGURE 1

Your Aprilaire Electronic Air Cleaner will remove over 90%
of particles the same size as many disease-causing airborne
bacteria, and is 80% efficient at removing virus-size particles.

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
5000 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.

FIGURE 2

Common Pollutants

Particle sizes in microns

0.01 0.1 1

SMOKE

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

*

(1 micron = 1/25,400 inch)

SMUDGING

AIRBORNE BACTERIA

5 10 50 100

POLLENS & SPORES

DUST

90-1148

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