Superior Fireplaces VRT4032ZEP Manual page 40

WARNING: If you smell gas
• Shut off gas supply.
• 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 fi re department.
IMPORTANT: Operating heater where impurities in air exist may create odors. Cleaning sup-
plies, paint, paint remover, cigarette smoke, cements and glues, new carpet or textiles, etc.,
create fumes. These fumes may mix with combustion air and create odors. These odors will
disappear over time.
OBSERVED PROBLEM
Heater produces unwanted odors
Heater shuts off in use (ODS
operates)
Gas odor even when control knob
is in OFF position
Gas odor during combustion
Log set cycles to pilot, but room tem-
perature drops to a lower than ideal
level before log set comes back on
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Continued
POSSIBLE CAUSE
1. Heater burning vapors from
paint, hair spray, glues, cleaners,
chemicals, new carpet, etc. (See
IMPORTANT statement above)
2. Low fuel supply (propane/LP
only)
3. Gas leak. See Warning state-
ment at top of Page
1. Not enough fresh air is available
2. Low line pressure
3. ODS/pilot is partially clogged
1. Gas leak. See Warning state-
ment at top of Page
2. Control valve or gas control
defective
1. Foreign matter between control
valve and burner
2. Gas leak. See Warning state-
ment at top of Page
1. Optional Hand-held remote
control is too close to heater
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REMEDY
1. Open window to ventilate room.
Stop using odor causing prod-
ucts while heater is running
2. Refi ll supply tank (propane/LP
only)
3. Locate and correct all leaks (see
Checking Gas Connections,
Page 16)
1. Open window and/or door for
ventilation
2. Contact local natural or propane/
LP gas company
3. Clean ODS/pilot (see Cleaning
and Maintenance, Page 31)
1. Locate and correct all leaks (see
Checking Gas Connections,
Page 16)
2. Replace control valve or gas
control
1. Take apart gas tubing and re-
move foreign matter
2. Locate and correct all leaks (see
Checking Gas Connections,
Page 16)
1. Move hand-held remote control
unit farther away from the heater
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