Bard Furnace 2100-287 User Manual

USER'S INFORMATION MANUAL

FOR TDH SERIES FURNACES

We're pleased you've chosen our gas furnace Co supply your heating needs. Please keep this manual in a safe, yet readily available place. It contains important and useful information.

ATTENTION, INSTALLER: After installing furnace, give the user:

• User's Information Manual • Parts List

• Installation Instructions • Warranty Information

ATTENTION, USER! Your furnace installer should give you the above four important documents relating to your furnace. Keep these as long as you do your furnace. Pass these documents on to later purchasers or furnace users. If any of the four documents are missing or damaged, contact your installer or furnace manufacturer for replacement. For efficient service, please give your furnace model and serial number, from Section 1 or from your furnace rating plate.

If the information in this manual is not followed exactly^ a fire or explosion may result causing property damage, personal injury or loss of life

• Do not store or use gasoline or other flammable vapors and liquids in the vicinity of this or any other appliance.

• WHAT TO DO IF YOU SMELL GAS

• Do not try to light any appliance.

• Do not touch any electrical switch; do not use any phone in your building.

• Immediately call your gas supplier from a neighbor's phone. Follow the gas supplier's instructions.

• If you cannot reach your gas supplier, call the fire department.

• Installation and service must be performed by a qualified installer or the gas supplier.

WARNING

A WARNING

Read and follow all safety information in this manual, operating instructions and furnace safety labels. Failure to follow safety precautions could result in damage, injury or death.

IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE: You must know how to turn off gas and electricity to furnace. Your qualified installer, service agency or gas supplier can teach you to use controls and switches.

Do not use this furnace If any part has been under water. Immediately call a qualified service technician to inspect the furnace and to replace any part of the control system

and any gas control which has been underwater.

Thank you for reading these safety statements. Please read on so you will know how to maintain your furnace for years of dependable service.

WARNING

MANUAL: 2100-287

SUPERSEDES: FILE: VOL, I, TAB 2 DATE: 07-18-97

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION 1 Rating Plate Information..................................................... 1

SECTION 2 Important Safety Precautions..............................................1

SECTION 3 Understanding How Your Furnace Works..........................3

SECTION 4 Turning Off Furnace in an Emergency

SECTION 5 Operating Your Furnace..................................................... 6

SECTION 6 Proper Maintenance of Your Furnace

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SECTION 1 • RATING PLATE INFORMATION

Record the manufacturer’s name, unit mode] number and serial number below. These are your furnace rating plate. Record installation date which is important for warranty purposes.

YOUR FURNACE INFORMATION

Furnace Type

Manufacturer’s Name

Model Number

Serial Number

Date Installed

Installer/Servicer,

Address_________

City/State/Zip Code.

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Telephone Number

SECTION 2 • IMPORTANT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

2.A HAZARD ALERT SYMBOL

An exclamation point surrounded by a triangle.

2.B SIGNAL WORDS

Years of safe, dependable service are assured when you understand and follow all safety precautions. REMEMBER: Your furnace contains flames, gas, electricity, rotating parts and metal edges.

Signal words "WARNING” and “CAUTION” alert you to potential hazards.

"WARNING” indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury.

"CAUTION” indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may result in minor or moderate injury. It may also be used to alert against unsafe practices. It can also be used to signal property damage only potential.

2.B. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

These are some of our most important safety precautions; others are throughout this manual. Please read and follow them.

2.1 GAS AND COMBUSTION PRODUCTS

A WARNING

Any condition that will allow gas of combustion products to enter furnace area can cause nausea, asphyxiation or fire resulting in damage, injury or death.

Natural gas and propane (LP) gas have characteristic odors. When your furnace is operating correctly, you should not smell any unfamiliar odor. Normally, burning gas with air produces combustion products which contain carbon dioxide, oxygen and water vapor. Under abnormal conditions, combustion products and contain aldehydes and carbon monoxide.

* Aldehydes have a strong pungent, acrid smell that can

cause nausea.

• Carbon monoxide is tasteless, colorless and odorless. It can cause headaches, flu-like symptoms or nausea. We refer to all these symptoms as nausea in this manual. It can also cause death by asphyxiation.

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