GE DLL6850B, DLB6850B Use and Care Manual

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Appliance Registration Automatic Drying

Care and Cleaning Controls Setting Guide

Dryer Exhaust Energy-Saving Tips

Knits Drying Tips Lint Filter

Loading Model and Serial Numbers

Operating the Dryer

Perm. Press Drying Tips 5-7, 11, 12

Problem Solver Repair Service

Safety Instructions Sorting

Storing Dryer

Timed Drying User Maintenance Instructions 13

Warranty

Back Cover

2 5

6,7

5-7, 11

5,9, 13

5,9

2 5

10-12

3,4 5,8

Use and Care of

model

DLB6850B DLL6850B

The GE Answer

800.626.2000

Help us

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help you...

Before using your dryer, read this book carefully.

It is intended to help you operate and maintain your new dryer properly.

Keep it handy for answers to your questions.

If you don’t understand something or need more help, write (include

your phone number): Consumer Affairs

Hotpoint

Appliance Park Louisville,

KY40225

If you received a damaged dryer. . .

Immediately contact the dealer

(or builder) that sold you the

dryer.

Save time and money.

Before you request service . . .

check the Problem Solver on pages 10-12. It lists causes of minor operating problems that you can correct yourself.

Write down the model and serial numbers.

You’ll find them on a label on the front of the dryer behind the door.

These numbers are also on the Consumer Product Ownership Registration Card that came with your dryer. Before sending in this card, please write these numbers here:

Model Number

Serial Number

Use these numbers in any correspondence or service calls concerning your dryer.

FOR YOUR

SA~TY

If you smell gas:

1. Open windows.

2. Don’t touch electrical switches?

3. Extinguish any open flame.

4. Immediately call your gas supplier.

*Don’t turn electric switches on or off because sparks may ignite the gas.

FOR YOUR SAFETY Do

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

All drying instruction terms in this book conform to the Care Labeling Rule established by the Federal Trade Commission, January 1984.

IMPORT~T

Read all instructions before using this appliance.

SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

WMING—TO

of fire, electric shock, or injury to persons when using your

apptiance, fo~ow

including the following:

●

Use this appliance only for its

intended purpose

this Use and Care Book.

● This dryer must be properly

installed and located in accordance with the Instillation Instructions before it is used. If

you did not receive an Installation Instructions sheet with your dryer, you can obtain one by contacting the service location nearest you.

—Properly ground to conform with all governing codes and ordinances. Follow details in Instillation Instructions.

—Locate where the temperature is above

50°F. (lO°C.)

satisfactory operation of the dryer control system. Do not install or store the dryer where it will be exposed to the weather.

—Connect to a properly rated, protected and sized power-supply circuit to avoid electrical overload.

—Exhausting to the outside is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to prevent large amounts of moisture and lint from being blown into the room. Carefully follow the Exhausting Details in the Instigation Instructions.

●

When disconnecting this appliance pull by the plug rather than the cord to avoid damage to the cord or junction of cord and plug. Make sure that the cord is located so that it will not be stepped on, tripped over or otherwise subjected to damage or stress.

●

Do not repair or replace any part of the appliance or attempt any servicing unless specifically recommended in this Use and Care Book or in published repair instructions that you understand and have the skills to

carry out.

reduce the risk

basic

p-utions,

as described in

for

user-

To minimize the possibility of a fire hazard.

●

Do not use heat to dry articles containing rubber, plastic, or similar materials (such as padded bras, tennis shoes, galoshes, bath mats, rugs, bibs, baby pants, plastic bags, etc.) as these materials may melt or burn. Also, some rubber materials, when

certain circumstances produce fire by spontaneous combustion.

● Garments labeled “Dry Away

From Heat” (such as life jackets containing Kapok) must not be put in your dryer.

●

Do not wash or dry articles that have been cleaned in, washed in, soaked in, or spotted with combustible or explosive substanc~ (such as gasoline, degreasers,

drycleaning solvents, kerosene,

which may give off vapors that

cotid

ignite or explode. Do not use or store such substances on/or around your washer and/or dryer during operation.

●

Any article on which you have used a cleaning solvent, or which contains flammable materials (such as cleaning cloths, mops, towels used in beauty salons, restaurants or barber shops, etc.) must not be placed in or near the dryer until all traces of these flammable liquids or solids and their fumes have been removed. There are many highly flammable items used in homes such as: acetone, denatured alcohol, gasoline, kerosene, some household cleaners, some spot removers, turpentines, waxes, wax removers and products containing petroleum distillates.

●

Clean the lint filter before each load to prevent lint accumulation inside the dryer or in the room. DO NOT OPERATE THE

DRYER WITHOUT THE LINT FILTER IN PLACE.

. Keep area around and underneath your appliance free

hated,

can under

etc.)

from the accumulation of combustible materials, such as lint, paper, rags, chemicals, etc.

●

Do not store items that may burn or melt (such as clothing, paper material, plastics or plastic containers, etc. ) on top of the dryer during operation.

● The interior of the machine

and the exhaust duct connection inside the dryer should be

cleaned periodically by a qualified individual.

● Exhaust duct (see installation

instructions). Use only

metai

duct inside dryer or for exhausting dryer to the outside.

To minimize the possibility of injury.

●

Never reach into the the drum is moving. Befo;e loading, unloading or adding clothes, wait until the drum has completely stopped.

● Close supervision is necessary

if this appliance is used by or near

children. Do not allow children to play inside, on or with this appliance or any discarded appliance. Dispose of discarded

appticw

and shipping or packing materials properly. Before discarding a dryer, or removing from service, remove the door of the drying compartment.

. Keep all laundry aids (such as detergents, bleaches, fabric softeners, etc. ) out of the reach of children, preferably in a locked cabinet. Observe all warnings on container labels to avoid personal injury.

●

Keep the floor around your appliances clean and dry to reduce the possibility of slipping.

● Do not dry fiberglass articles in

your dryer. Skin irritation could result from the remaining glass

particles that may be picked up by clothing during subsequent

drver

while

‘ryerusew

—

hportant Safety Imtructiom

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(continued)

● The laundry process can reduce

the flame retardancy of fabrics. To avoid such a result, the garment manufacturer’s care instructions should be followed very carefully.

●

Never climb on or stand on the

dryer top or door.

● Do not timper with controls.

●

To minimize the possibility

of electric shock, unplug this

appliance from the power supply

before attempting any maintenance

or cleaning (except the removal and cleaning of the lint filter). Turning the Cycle Selector knob to an OFF position does disconnect the appliance from the power supply.

●

Do not operate this appliance if it is damaged, malfunctioning, partially disassembled, or has missing or broken parts, including a damaged cord or plug.

●

If yours is a gas dryer, it is equipped with an automatic electric ignition and does not have a pilot

light.

N~ ATTEM~ ~

LIGHT WITH A may result from having your hand in the vicinity of the burner when the automatic ignition may turn on.

MA~H.

N~E:

Burns

Dryer-applied fabric softeners or

anti-stitic

conditioners

You may wish to soften your

laundered fabrics or reduce the static electricity in them. We recommend you use either a

fabric softener in the wash cycle, according to the manufacturer’s instructions for try a dryer-added product for which the manufacturer gives written assurance on the package that their product can be safely used in your dryer.

Service or performance problems caused by the use of these products are the responsibility of the manufacturers of those products and

are

not covered under the

warranty of this appliance.

SAVE

thbse

T~SE

products, or

INSTRUCTIONS

How to operate your dryer

WARNING-To reduce the risk of fire, electric shock, or injury to persons, read the IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS before operating this appliance.

K~/WES

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Your Dryer Properly

● Clean the lint filter each time the

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FLWF

dryer is used. Always be sure the

lint

filter is in place. Don’t use the

dryer without it.

●

Good sorting for the dryer begins at the washer. Generally, if clothes are sorted right for washing, they’re sorted right for drying. See page 8 for sorting help. (If you do mix various types of fabrics in your

– load, set the controls for the

lighter-weight fabrics and remove when dry. Reset controls for the remaining heavier fabrics. )

HEAVV DUTY DRVER

wITH

AUTOMATIC ORV CONTROL

Set the Controls

See the Controls Setting Guide on pages 6 and 7.

Drying Selections Select the proper heat for your load. Note:

“Fluff

No-Heat” is to be used

only with the TIMED

Turn Cycle Selector to desired

cycle setting.

Turn START knob to start

dryer.

(Opening the door during operation stops the dryer. To restart, close the

door and turn the START knob.)

~CLES.

Polyester Knits &

fiss

Permanent

● DO NOT

Garments being dried or

dewrin~ed

● REMOVE CLOTHES

PROM~LY—To help prevent wrintiing, remove from the dryer

promptly at the end of the drying cycles.

PLACE ON Permanent Press and Polyester Knit garments look best if placed on hangers after drying.

—

OVERLOAD—

should tumble freely.

drying tips

HANGERS—

What is the difference between Automatic &

~med

Automatic Drying

When using the AUTOMATIC

SENSI-DRY cycles, the

Dry Control

senses the temperature of the air in the dryer drum. Wet laundry keeps this air cool. When laundry is dry enough (and the drum air warm enough) the heat turns off. When the air cools, the heat turns back on. This off and on cycling may happen a number of times

(depending on the fabric, load size, and Cycle Selector setting). The Cycle Selector advances (when the heat is turns off dryer.

drying?

Automatic

system

of~

until it automatically

continually

Timed Drying

When using the TIMED

~CLES,

you select the number of minutes you wish the dryer to run and it turns off at the end of this time period.

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