Aprilaire 1000 Series Media Air Cleaners Owner’s Manual
- June 3, 2024
- Aprilaire
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Aprilaire 1000 Series Media Air Cleaners Owner’s Manual
Thank you for your recent Aprilaire° Air Cleaner purchase. We sincerely
appreciate your business and are pleased to add your name to our growing list
of cuzomers. With this purchase, you have invested in the highest qualiy
equipment currently available. Research Products Corporation is the larger
manufanurer of central air cleaners and humidifiers and a recognized leader in
the heating and air conditioning industry today.
Please be asured that in addition to product qualiy, we are also committed to
performance as well as customer satisfanion.
IMPORTANT: Scheduled replacement of the Aprilaire filtering media is
necessary. See page for details.
Now, please take a few minutes and read this booklet. This will familiarize you with the benefits you will receive from the equipment you jun purchased and help you underhand the routine maintenance that will be required. Be sure to register your warranty with us for our records and your protection.
Your Aprilaire Air Cleaner is an investment in healthful comfort for your family and protection for your home and furnishings. With this purchase, you have invested in an air cleaner that is many times more efficient than ordinary furnace or air conditioning filters with which you may be familiar. There are many benefits you may expect from your Aprilaire Air Cleaner. This manual is furnished to acquaint you with these benefits, and with operation and maintenance information to insure the high level of performance this high efficiency air cleaner is designed to provide.
PERFORMANCE
An Aprilaire whole-house air cleaner is installed by your heating and air conditioning contractor as one of the components in your heating and cooling system. It cleans the air that circulates through your home (see FIGURE 1).
When the heating or cooling equipment turns on, the air in your home travels through the registers and return duct(s) to the heating and
cooling equipment where it is conditioned and sent back into the rooms of your house through the supply ducts. Small particles from numerous sources are suspended in your home’s air, jun as they are suspended in the air outdoors. The largest of these particles will eventually come to rest and appear as dust. Smaller particles may come to rev, but with even the slightest dinurbance will re-suspend into the air. These particles are very small, and come from natural sources such as dust and pollen and from man-made sources such as tobacco smoke or exhaust. The air cleaner is installed on or near the furnace/air handler and removes the particles that travel with the air that circulates through your heating and cooling system. Removing these particles keeps the equipment component clean and more importantly removes particles from the air you breathe. Particles are measured in microns, which is a unit of measure used for very small things (1 micron 1/25,400 inch). For reference, the diameter of a human hair is approximately 100 microns. FIGURE 2 shows the size of various particles that can be found in the air.
FIGURE 2
OPERATION
Household dust is typically an a umulation of particles in a size range of .01 micron up to 100 microns. Pollens and spores, which can
aggravate allergy symptoms, are usually in the 10-100 micron size range.
The visible household dust panicles, and nearly all pollen and spore particles, therefore, can be caught and permanently held, very easily, if you can get them to the air cleaner. With central high efficiency air cleaners, the blower of your heating/air conditioning system performs the air movement function.
Continuous air cleaning will be a omplished when your thermostat is set for continuous air circulation (“Fan 0n”). If continuous air cleaning is not required, or desired, set your thermostat to “Fan Auto”.
For those who choose periodic cleaning (as opposed to continuous cleaning through continuous furnace blower operation), the most important period is during—and for several hours after—vacuuming your home. The vacuuming process (unless you have a central vacuum system) stirs up a large volume of dust particles which must be drawn into your air cleaned.
Nany of the dust particles generated, while vacuuming, are so heavy they “fall” out of the airstream before they can be drawn out of your living area. This is why it is important to do household dusting several hours after vacuuming. Normally once the heavy particles “fall out”, they are only reintroduced to the air by vacuuming, or similarly vigorous activity.
Where allergy symptoms, which are aggravated by pollens and spores, are a concern, continuous cleaning is strongly encouraged.
To recap, when removing household dust is the major benefit you are seeking, you should operate your air cleaner during and following periods when dust is being generated or “stirred up”. For pollens and spores which aggravate an allergy condition, your cleaner must be operated continuously when these pollutants are in the environment. The air cleaner can only be effective when air containing the contaminate is drawn through the filtering media.
MAINTENANCE
The only maintenance required is the periodic replacement of the disposable
Aprilaire Filtering Nedia which you can do in a few minutes.
The frequency of replacement will vary with operation time, the number of
panicles generated in the home and is affected by: number of people and their
activities, the amount of carpeting, pets, size of home, number of smokers,
the pollution level of the area.
Aprilaire recommends replacing the media each year. However, if you do not run
your blower continuously the media may last up to two years.
Air conditioning systems larger than J.5 tons, or heating systems larger than
110,000 BTUs per hour (1400 cfm), will require more frequent attention if
operated continuously.
CHARGING THE FILTER
Replace the filtering media with genuine Aprilaire SelfSeal filters,
available from your installing contractor.
IMPORTANT: Follow the step by step directions on the filter carton to
ensure that it is installed in the proper orientation — the outlet side of the
filtering media is the expanded metal.
The model number for your epacemenlflltehng mediacanbelound on the label
inside the air cleaner door (see FIGURE 3 ).
REPLACEMENT FILTER MEDIA
Model| Best for Clean Home and Equipment Protection| Best for Healthy
Home
1110| 110| 113
1210/1620| 210| 213
13\0| l0| l3
1410/1610| 410| 413
15\0| l0| l3
CHOOSE THE FILTER MEDIA THAT’S BEST FOR YOUR HOME AND FAMILY
Captures| Model 110/Zl0/310/410/510| Model \\3/2U/Z13/413/513
Dust| |
Pollen| |
Fungi| |
Mold| |
Pet Dander| |
Virus Size Particles| |
Bacteria| |
Virus Size Particles
0.3 -1 Microns
| N/A|
| 65%| 90%
Pollen and Nold Sgores S -10 Microns| 85%| 90%
Aprilaire Air Cleaners are so effenive at removing pauicles and contaminants that are harmful to your family and your HVAC equipment, we offer you this guarantee. Should your new indoor air conditioning coil require professional cleaning in the next 10 years while properly using an Aprilaire Air Cleaner, we will pay $100 toward the cost of having the indoor coil cleaned by a licensed contranor.
This commitment applies to new HVAC equipment with a new indoor air
conditioner coil (les than six months old) installed with an Aprilaire Air
Cleaner. The Aprilaire Air Cleaner must be installed by a licensed HVAC
contractor. The Aprilaire Air Cleaner must be properly maintained as per
direnions in the owner’s manual including use of only Aprilaire brand media
replacement.
For redemption details, please visit
www.aprilaire.com/cleancoil or call
1-800-334-6011.
FILTERING MEDIA REPLACEMENT RECORD
| Date | Dealer Name |
|---|---|
LIMITED WARRANTY
Your Research Products Corporation Aprilaire Media Air Cleaner is expressly warranted for five (5) years from the date of installation to be free from defects in materials or workmanship. except, however, for the disposable media which will have to be replaced from time to time depending upon the use. Research Products Corporation’s exclusive obligation under this warranty shall be to supply, without charge, a replacement for any part of the Media Air Cleaner which is found to be defective within such five (5) year period and which is returned not later than thirty (30) days after said five (5) year period by you or your original supplier to Research Products Corporation. Madison, WI 53701, together with the model number and installation date of the Media Air Cleaner.
THIS WARRANTY SHALL NOT OBLIGATE RESEARCH PRODUCTS CORPORATION FOR ANY LABOR COSTS AND SHALL NOT APPLY TO DEFECTS IN WORKMANSHIP OR MATERIALS FURNISHED BY YOUR INSTALLER AS CONTRASTED TO DEFECTS DISCOVERED IN THE AIR CLEANER ITSELF.
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SHALL BE LIMITED IN DURATION TO THE AFORESAID FIVE YEAR PERIOD. RESEARCH PRODUCTS CORPORATION’S LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OTHER THAN DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURIES, RESULTING FROM ANY BREACH OF THE AFORESAID IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE ABOVE LIMITED WARRANTY IS EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED. THIS LIMITED WARRANTY IS VOID IF DEFECT(S) RESULT FROM FAILURE TO HAVE THIS UNIT INSTALLED BY A QUALIFIED HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACTOR. IF THE LIMITED WARRANTY IS VOID DUE TO FAILURE TO USE A QUALIFIED CONTRACTOR, ALL DISCLAIMERS OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SHALL BE EFFECTIVE UPON INSTALLATION.
Some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts or the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages so the above exclusion or limitations may not apply to you.
This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state.
For fulfillment of warranty parts, call Aprilaire at 1-800-334-6011.
WARRANTY REGISTRATION
Visit us online at www.aprilaire.com to register your Aprilaire product. If you do not have online access, please mail a postcard with your name, address, phone number, email address, product purchased, model number, date of purchase, and dealer name and address to: Research Products Corporation. P.O. Box 1467, Madison, WI 53701.
Your warranty registration information will not be sold or shared outside of this company.
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