Whirlpool AD0402XS0 User Manual

use&care guide

DEHUMIDIFIERS

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Please read this

Use and Care Guide before you do anything else.

This booklet tells you how to install your de humidifier, use it and clean it. Treat your new de humidifier with care. Use it only to do what home dehumidifiers are designed to do.

Contents

Parts and Features Before Using Your Dehumidifiet Adjustment

Install Properly Water Disposal Electrical Requirements

Using Your Dehumidifier

15 Pint Capacity Model All Other Models To Operate

Parts and features

Setting the Water Level

. Caring for Your Dehumidifier

Dehumidifier De-Icer Control

It You Need Service or Assistance Whirlpool Dehumidifier Warranty

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REAR GRILLE

Thank you for buying a Whirlpool appliance. Please complete and mail the Owner Registration Card provided with this product. Then complete 'he 'orm below. Hove this information ready if you need service or coll with o question.

• Copy model and serial numbers from label iun der the water pan on the base of the unit) one purchase date from sales slip.

• Keep this book and sales slip together in a handv

Diace.

Model Number

Serial Number

Purchase Date

Service Company Phone Number

Before using your dehumidifier

It is your personal responsibility and obligation to make sure your dehumidifier:

Has been properly installed on a floorthat is rea sonably level.

is the right size for the area you want to dehunnidify.

is oonnected to the right kind of outlet, with the proper electrical supply and grounding. (Refer

to “Electrical Requirements" on page 4.) Is used only to do what home dehumidifiers are

designed to do.

Install Properly...

• Is not used by anyone unable to operate it properly.

• Is properly maintained.

• Is used in an area where the room temperature

will not fall below 65 F (18.3 C).[48,40 and 30 pint models will operate in temperatures down to 50 F (10 C).]

• Do not remove Tech Sheet which is inside the

cabinet. Your service technician needs this

information.

1. On most models, two rollers let you easily move the dehumidifier. Remove the water pan. Tilt unit forward and roll to another position.

If your model does not have rollers, pick up the unit to move it to another position.

2. Allow at lease 12 inches (30.5 cm) of space

around the unit for good air circulation.

3. Keep all outside doors, windows and other

openings closed when dehumidifier is operat

ing, Humid outdoor air will add to the de

humidifier's operating load.

4. Water pan must be properly positioned on the

hangers inside the cabinet when dehumidifier is operating.

Electrical Requirements

OBSERVE ALL GOVERNING CODES AND ORDINANCES. Electrical ground is required on this appliance.

A115 volt, 60 Hz., AC only, 15 or 20 ampere fused electrical supply is required, (Time delay fuse or circuit breaker is recommended.) It is recommended that a separate circuit serving only this appliance be provided. Do not use an extension cord.

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, REMOVE THE POWER SUPPLY CORD GROUND PRONG.

RECOMMENDED GROUNDING METHOD

For your personal safety, this appliance must be grounded. This appliance is equipped with a power supply cord having a 3-prong grounding plug. To minimize possible shock hazard, the cord

must be plugged into a mating 3-prong ground ing type wall receptacle, grounded in accord ance with the National Electrical Code and local codes and ordinances. If a mating wall recepta cle is not available, it is the personal responsibility and obligation of the customerto have a properly grounded 3-prong wall receptacle installed by a qualified electrician.

TEMPORARY GROUNDING METHOD

If changing and properly grounding the wall re

ceptacle is impossible and where local codes

permit (consultyourelectrical inspector), a tempo rary adaptor may be plugged into the existing 2-

prong wall receptacle to mate with the 3-prong power supply cord THIS HOWEVER, IS NOT RECOMMENDED.

If this is done, you must connect the grounding

eyelet on the ada pter to the wall receptacle cover plate screw and from this same screw, you must connect a separate copper ground wire (#14 mini mum) to a grounded cold water pipe.* Do not ground to a gas supply pipe. Do not connect to electrical supply until appliance is perma nently grounded.

ELECTRICALLY GROUNDED METAL COLD-WATER PIPE (REMOVE PAINT, ETC.)

GROUND PRONG

3-PRONG GROUNDING PLUG

POWER SUPPLY CORD

GROUND ASSEMBLY (AnACH TO GROUNDED METAL COLD-WATER PIPE)

ADAPTER

WALL RECEPTACLE

*Cold water pipe must have metal continuity to electrical ground and not be interrupted by plastic, rubber or other electrically insulating connectors (including water meter or pump) without adding a jumper wire at these connections.

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