Sunbeam BL51, BL52, BL53, BL54, BL55 User Manual

SLEEP PERFECT

MACHINE WASHABLE
ELECTRIC BLANKETS

User Guide

BL51
BL52
BL53
BL54
BL55
BL56

Contents

Sunbeam’s Safety Precautions 1
Safety Precautions for your Electric Blanket 2

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Sunbeam’s Sleep Perfect
Features of your electric blanket

Sleep Perfect Fitted, Waterproof, Antibacterial 4

Sleep Perfect Quilted, Pillow Top, Wool Fleece 5
Fitting your electric blanket 6
Using your 9 heat control with timer 8
Using your 6 heat digital timer control 10
Troubleshooting 11
Care and cleaning 12

Technology 3

Sunbeam’s Safety Precautions

Sunbeam is very safety conscious when

designing and manufacturing consumer products,
but it is essential that the product user also
exercise care when using an electrical appliance.
Listed below are precautions which are essential
for the safe use of an electrical appliance:

• Read carefully and save all the instructions
provided with an appliance.

• Always turn the power off at the power outlet
before you insert or remove a plug. Remove
by grasping the plug - do not pull on the cord.

• Turn the power off and remove the plug
when the appliance is not in use and
before cleaning.

• Do not use your appliance with an extension
cord unless this cord has been checked
and tested by a qualified technician or
service person.

• Always use your appliance from a power
outlet of the voltage (A.C. only) marked
on the appliance.

• This appliance is not intended for use by
persons (including children) with reduced
physical, sensory or mental capabilities, or
lack of experience and knowledge, unless they
have been given supervision or instruction
concerning use of the appliance by a person
responsible for their safety.

• Children should be supervised to ensure that
they do not play with the appliance.

• The temperature of accessible surfaces may be
high when the appliance is operating.

• Never leave an appliance unattended while
in use.

• Do not use an appliance for any purpose
other than its intended use.

• Do not place an appliance on or near a hot gas
flame, electric element or on a heated oven.

• Do not place on top of any other appliance.

• Do not let the power cord of an appliance hang
over the edge of a table or bench top or touch
any hot surface.

• Do not operate any electrical appliance with
a damaged cord or after the appliance has
been damaged in any manner. If damage is
suspected, return the appliance to the nearest
Sunbeam Appointed Service Centre
for examination, repair or adjustment.

• For additional protection, Sunbeam
recommend the use of a residual current
device (RCD) with a tripping current not
exceeding 30mA in the electrical circuit
supplying power to your appliances.

• Do not immerse the appliance in water
or any other liquid unless recommended.

• Appliances are not intended to be operated
by means of an external timer or separate
remote control system.

• This appliance is intended to be used in
household and similar applications such
as: staff kitchen areas in shops, offices and
other working environments; farm houses; by
clients in hotels, motels and other residential
type environments; bed and breakfast type
environments.

If you have any concerns regarding the performance and use of your appliance,

please visit www.sunbeam.com.au or contact the Sunbeam Consumer Service Line.

Ensure the above safety precautions are understood.

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Safety Precautions for your
Electric Blanket

• Do not use your electric blanket on or under a
waterbed.

• Do not use on an adjustable bed or futon.

• Do not switch the blanket on if moist or wet.

• Do not allow the blanket heating wires to lie over
the edge of the mattress.

• Do not place your power cord or connector under
any stress or strain. Never jam or bend the power
cord over a hard surface such as a bed frame.
The power cord should always remain free from
obstructions.

• Do not use pins, needles, safety pins or other
sharp items on your electric blanket.

• Do not dry clean your electric blanket.

• Use only as an underblanket.

• Examine periodically for signs of wear or damage
on the blanket cords. If there are such signs, or
the blanket has been misused, return it to an
authorised service agent for inspection.

• Each day check that the electric blanket is
smooth, flat and properly secured on the
mattress. Do not use if the blanket is folded,
rucked or creased.

• Only use your electric blanket with the controls
supplied or marked equivalent.

• Do not use with infants, infirm persons, or
persons insensitive to heat.

• Parents or guardians must preset the controls
for young children, unless the child has been
adequately instructed on how to operate the
control safely.

• Turn the power off and remove the plug when the
appliance is not in use and before cleaning.

• This electric blanket is not intended for use in
hospitals.

• Should your appliance suffer a thermal or fuse
link rupture (normally identified when the
blanket stops heating) please return it to the
manufacturer or agent for repair or replacement.

• When storing the appliance, allow it to cool down
before folding.

• Do not crease the appliance by placing items on
top of it during storage.

• Not to be used by very young children (0-3 years),
infirm persons, or persons insensitive to heat.

• This appliance must not be used by persons
insensitive to heat and other very vulnerable
persons who are unable to react to overheating.

• Children under the age of three are not to use
this appliance due their inability to react to
overheating.

Important instructions – retain for
future use.

If you have any concerns regarding the performance and use of your appliance,

please visit www.sunbeam.com.au or contact the Sunbeam Consumer Service Line.

Ensure the above safety precautions are understood.

Care Label Symbols

Attention

Instruction Booklet - Please read the instructions thoroughly before use

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Sunbeam’s SleepPerfect®
Technology

Temperature sensitive, fast-heating elements

All Sunbeam Sleep Perfect electric blankets
feature our exclusive SleepPerfect
Technology. This technology uses a unique
heating element that adjusts the power
supplied to your electric blanket to maintain
your selected setting.

A built-in microprocessor continually senses
changes to your body temperature affecting
the blankets' temperature and adjusts the
power input accordingly, to provide a
constant level of comfort.

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Nine levels of safety protection

Nine levels of safety protection make
Sunbeam's Sleep Perfect range safer
than any other electric blanket. A built-in
microprocessor senses any rise in
temperature and reduces the power supply
to prevent overheating.

In the unlikely event of a fault, the
microprocessor senses the abnormal
operation and automatically cuts off power
to the blanket.

On double, queen, king and super king
size electric blankets each side adjusts
independently to maintain individual comfort
levels. So you’ll always sleep soundly, even
on the coldest nights.

This unique element also heats to your
selected temperature in just 10 minutes,
so there’s no need for hours of preheating
before bedtime.

A second microprocessor acts as a back up
should the first fail.

For additional safety protection, all Sleep
Perfect electric blankets contain a thermal
back up fuse that is independent of the
blanket control. It detects any abnormal
temperature variations in the heating element
and automatically switches the blanket off to
prevent overheating.

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