GE JGB3000 Owner's Manual & Installation Instructions page 34

Self-cleaning gas ranges
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Installation
Instructions
A WARNING!
INSTALLATIONSAFETY
INSTRUCTIONS
Read these instructions
completely
and carefully.
Improper installation, adjustment, alteration, service or
maintenance can cause injury or property damage. Refer
to this manual. For assistance or additional information,
consult a qualified installer, service agency,
manufacturer (dealer) or the gas supplier.
Never reuse old flexible connectors. The use of old flexible
connectors con couse gos leoks ond personol injury. Alwoys
use NEW flexible connectors when instolling
o gos opplionce.
I M PORTANT - Remove
o,,
pocking
motedol
ond Nteroture
fromovenbefore c onnecting gosond
electricol supply to ronge.
A CAUTION - Do n ot ottempt
to operote
the oven of this ronge during o power foilure (Electric
Ignition models only).
• Hove your ronge instolled by o quolified instoller.
• Your ronge must be electricolly grounded in occordonce
with Iocol codes or, in the obsence of Iocol codes, in
occordonce with the Notionol ElectricolCode (ANSI/NFPA
70, Iotest edition). In Conodo, electricol grounding must
be in occordonce with the current CSAC22.1 Conodion
ElectricolCode Port 1 ond/or Iocol codes.See Electricol
Connections in this section.
• Before instolling your ronge on linoleum or ony other
synthetic floor covering, moke sure the floor covering
con withstond 180°Fwithout shrinking, worping or
discoloring. Do not instoll the ronge over corpeting
unless o sheet of 1/4" thick plywood or similor insulotor
is ploced between the ronge ond corpeting.
• Moke sure the won coverings oround the ronge con
withstond heot generoted by the ronge up to 200°F.
to
Avoid plocing cobinets obove the ronge. To reduce
the hozord coused by reoching over the open flomes
of operoting burners, instoll o ventilotion hood over the
ronge thot projects forword ot leost 5" beyond the front
of the cobinets.
Theventiloting hood must be constructed of sheet metol
not lessthon 0.0122" thick. Instoll obove the cooktop with
o cleoronce of not lessthon 1/4" between the hood ond
the underside of the combustible moteriol or metol
cobinet. The hood must be ot leost os wide os the
opplionce ond centered over the opplionce. Cleoronce
between the cooking surfoce ond the ventilotion hood
surfoce MUSTNEVERBE LESS THAN 24 INCHES.
EXCEPTION: Instollotion of o listed microwove oven
or cooking opplionce over the cooktop sholl conform
the instollotion instructions pocked with thot opplionce.
If cobinets ore ploced obove the ronge, ollow o minimum
cleoronce of 30" between the cooking surfoce ond the
bottom of unprotected cobinets.
If o 30" cleoronce between cooking surfoce ond
overheod combustible moteriol or metol cobinets connot
be mointoined, protect the underside of the cobinets
obove the cooktop with not less thon 1/4" insuloting
millboord covered with sheet metol not less thon 0.0122"
thick. Cleoronce between the cooking surfoce ond
protected cobinets MUSTNEVERBELESS THAN
24 INCHES.
The verticol distonce from the plone of the cooking
surfoce to the bottom of odjocent overheod cobinets
extending closer thon l" to the plone of the ronge sides
must not be lessthon 18". (Seethe Dimensionsond
Cleoronces illustrotion in this section.)
CAUTION
- Items ofinterest
tochildren
should notbe stored i ncobinets oboveo rongeoron
thebocksplosh ofo ronge-children
climbing on the
rongetoreochitems could be seriously
injured.
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