Step 3: Prepare The Venting Blower - Kenmore 721.67600 Installation Instructions Manual

STEP 3:
PREPARE THE VENTING BLOWER
Your microwave oven is shipped with the blower assembled for roof venting. You need to adjust the blower
you want wall-venting or room-vented (recirculating) installation.
WARNING
ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD!
• DO NOT PULL OR STRETCH THE BLOWER WIRING! Pulling and stretching the blower wiring
could result in electrical shock.
Remove two screws that attach mounting plate to microwave oven cabinet. See Figure 10.
Remove mounting plate and set aside.
ROOF-VENTED INSTALLATION:
Goto STEP 4 on page 12.
WALL-VENTED INSTALLATION:
1. Remove one blower unit mounting screw and two blower
plate screws. Remove the blower plate from cabinet. See
Figure 11.
2. Disconnect the power plug from the oven.
3. Carefully lift the blower unit out of the microwave oven.
4. Rotate blower unit end over end. Rotate the unit 90 ° so that
the exhaust ports face the rear of the cabinet.
See Figure 12.
5. Place blower unit back into cabinet. Check that exhaust
ports face the rear of the cabinet.
See Figure 13.
6. Connect the power plug.
7. Use side cutters or tin snips to cut and remove knockouts
marked "B" from blower plate. Discard knockouts.
See Figure 14.
8. Reattach blower plate to cabinet so exhaust ports and
blower plate opening are aligned. Attach with the one
blower unit mounting screw and then the two blower plate
mounting screws. See Figure 15.
blower
Replace screws
into cabinet.
Remove
mounting
plate.
Figure 10
plate
mounting screws
blower
_lower unit
plate mounting screw
Figure 11
exhaust
ports
blower
unit
Figure 12
exhaust
ports
Figure 13
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