De'Longhi A1-5708012000 Owner's Manual

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

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The De’ Longhi electric oil filled radiators are the finest
and most versatile portable heaters available.
Please review the following to ensure the fullest benefit
from their features.

Os aquecedores a óleo são os melhores e os mais versá­teis atualmente disponíveis no mercado. Leia com
atenção o manual de instruções para ter o melhor pro-

veito possível.

IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS

When using electrical appliances, basic precautions should always be taken to avoid the risk of
fire, electric shock and personal injury, including the following:

1. Read these instructions thoroughly before using this heater.

2. If your radiator is equipped with a polythene tape, which serves as carry handle, remove it
prior to connecting the appliance to an outlet.

3. This heater becomes very hot when operating. To avoid burns, do not touch its hot surfaces
with your bare skin. Use the heater’s handle when moving it. Keep combustible materials, such
as furniture, pillows, bedding, papers, clothes and curtains at least 3 feet (90 cm) away from
the heater’s front and top, and also well away from its sides and rear.

4. Extreme caution should be taken when leaving an operating heater unattended near children
or handicapped persons.

5.

Always unplug the heater when it is not in use.

6. Do not operate your heater when its cord or plug has been damaged or after it has malfunctioned, has
been dropped or damaged in any manner. If you notice any leakage of oil, switch it off immediately
and contact a service center as indicated in these instructions. Return the heater to an authorized servi­ce facility for inspection, electrical or mechanical adjustment, or repair.

7. Your heater should not be operated outdoors.

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Your heater is not intended for use in bathrooms, laundry areas and similar indoor loca­tions. Never locate the heater where it might fall into a bathtub or other water containers.

9. Do not run the electric cord under carpeting. Do not cover cord with throw rugs, runners, or
the like. Run the cord away from traffic areas and where it will not be tripped over.

10. To disconnect the heater, switch it OFF, then unplug its cord from the outlet.

11. Connect to properly polarized outlets only.

12. Do not insert or allow foreign objects to enter any ventilation or exhaust opening, as this might
cause an electric shock, fire, or damage the heater.

13.

To prevent fire, do not block air intakes or exhaust in any manner. Do not place the heater
on soft surfaces, like a bed, where openings may be blocked.

14. Your heater’s internal parts may become hot or issue sparks during normal operation. Therefore, you
should not use it in areas where gasoline, paint, or flammable liquids are used or stored.

15. Use this heater only as described in this manual. Any other use not recommended by the
manufacturer might cause fire, electric shock, or personal injury.

16. To prevent overload and blown fuses, be sure that no other appliances are plugged into the
same shared outlet, or a separate outlet on the same shared circuit.

17.

The heater’s electric cord and plug may grow warmer during normal operation. However,
exceedingly hot or deformed plug or cord are not normal, and are often the result of a
defective power outlet. You should replace such outlets prior to further use of the heater.
Continuous use of defective outlets might cause cord overheating and fire.

18. The use of extension cords is not recommended, as they are likely to overheat and increase the
risk of fire. However, where necessary, you may use a No. 1 4 AWG or larger cord rated for
1875 watts or more; the extension cord should not be shared by any other appliance.

19. Make sure the heater is firmly plugged into the wall outlet. Please note that the quality of wall
outlets may deteriorate over time: Check the electric plug periodically for signs of overheating
or deformation, and in such cases, stop using that outlet and have it fixed.

20. Check that neither the heater nor the power cable has been damaged in any way during tran­sportation.

21. Make sure that no pieces of polystyrene or other packaging material have been left between
heating elements. If necessary, remove such pieces using a vacuum cleaner.

22. When switching the heater on for the first time, allow it to run at full power for about two hours
to get rid of a possibly unpleasant smell. Make sure that the room where the heater is placed is
well ventilated during this first operation. Soft crackling sounds are normal during the heater’s
first operation.

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FITTING THE WHEELS

Turn the radiator upside-down on a rug or a soft surface in order to prevent damaging the paint
finish.
Fully unfold the castors by turning them outwards (Fig. 1).
Turn the radiator back to its upright position.

BE CAREFUL

Operate the heater in upright position only (wheels on the bottom, controls on the top). Any other
position could create hazard situation!

1. LOCATION

Place heater on floor beneath coldest window in the room or any desired location. Your heater will
minimize the effect of cold drafts.
The heater must not be located immediately below a socket-outlet.
Do not use this radiator in rooms having a surface area less than 4 m

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2. CONNECTION

The radiator must be connected to a properly polarized A/C 115/220 V (check the voltage on the
label positioned on the cable) household outlet in perfect working conditions.
Keep loose clothing or bedding, furniture and flammable material away from the wall outlet where
the heater plug is fitted in.

3. SWITCHING ON TWO-SWITCHES MODELS

Turn thermostat clockwise to the maximum position. Switch on both switches. The lights on the swit­ches remain on indipendent of the cycling of the thermostat. When room reaches desired tempera­ture, turn the thermostat knob counter clockwise very slowly and carefully until you hear a “click”.
This will automatically set your unit to cycle on and off at that desired heat setting. (For timer
instructions, see point 5).
Note: It will normally require approx.15 minutes to reach operating temperature.

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With pilot lights ON, the heater is ON!

HOW TO USE YOUR HEATER

WATTS ECONOMIZER

For more economical use, the Min. or Med. Watt switches may be used
individually, after unit has reached the operating temperature.

ON/OFF Switches

Pilot lights

800

WATTS
BOTH 1500 WATTS

700

WATTS

4. USE OF THERMOSTAT

The thermostat operates on room air temperature and not radiator temperature. Counter clockwise
direction - lower number, lower temperature. Clockwise direction- higher number, higher tempera­ture.

Antifreeze function

Turn the thermostat to the position and press the switches. The appliance will maintain a mini­mum room temperature of approximately 5°C thus preventing freezing with a minimum energy
consumption.

REMINDER

To completely shut unit off, ON/OFF switches must be placed in OFF position.

5. UNITS WITH TIMER

Clock setting

The programme/timer, as in all clocks, must be set to the correct time. If for example the time is

9.30 a.m. (day zone), rotate the dial clockwise (following the direction of the arrow) until 9.30 is

aligned with the triangular pointer.

IMPORTANT:

DO NOT ROTATE CLOCK DIAL COUNTER CLOCKWISE.

The timer is in effect an electric clock and only works while plug is connected to the power supply.
Whenever the plug is disconnected, the timer stops and must be re-set.

Your product is equipped with a polarized alternating current line plug (a plug having one blade
wider than the other). There is only one way it can be plugged into a power supply.
This is a safety feature. If you are unable to insert the plug fully into the outlet, try again by tur­ning it the other way. If it would still not go in, it is probably due to an obsolete outlet which
should be replaced.
Do not temper with the plug or outlet to defeat the purpose of this safety mechanism.

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HOW TO USE THE TIMER

Please refer to the illustration below:

IMPORTANT: There are 96 tabs around the dial. Each tab represents a 1/4 hour
(15 minutes) and there is a tab for every quarter hour of the 24 hour day. Your appliance can be
programmed to switch itself ON and OFF at the time you want. With the timer you can approxi­mate your setting to within 15 minutes and program up to 48 cycles (1 cycle = 1 “ON” + 1 “OFF”)
over a period of 24 hours (12 hours a.m.+12 hours p.m.).
The tabs can be pushed inwards or pulled outwards by merely using your fingers. When the tab is
in the inward position (towards the center of the dial), the heater

will operate during that 15 minu-

te period. If the tab is in the outward position, the heater

will not operate during this period.

Please note when you first use your heater, all the tabs are inwards. You must push in those tabs
for the period that you want the heater to work. (If you want to bypass the timer check that the all
96 tabs inward).

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