HITACHI RB330PT9 Bottom Mount Fridge Instruction Manual

HITACHI RB330PT9 Bottom Mount Fridge

Warnings and Caution for Safety

The following warnings and cautions are categorized by the level of possible harm or damage that may occur from ignoring directions. To avoid harm to the use, of other persons, or property damage, please read and follow the warnings and cautions below and those given throughout this manual. The symbols are shown below clearly showing the significance of directions. This refrigerator uses flammable refrigerants. The symbol column below states the precautions on flammable refrigerants.

R600a This symbol denotes the precautions on flammable refrigerants.

WARNING

When you install … To avoid fire, electric shock, and injury.

• Do not install the refrigerator in a place where it may come in contact with water.
• Do not install the refrigerator in a place exposed to rain.
• This may impair electricity insulation and cause electric shock or fire.

Power Cord and Power Plug … To avoid fire. electric shock.

• Do not connect the wall outlet whose power capacity is less than the refrigerator’s.
• Also, do not use power sources that are not a rated voltage.
• If a power source is shared with other appliances using double or multipoint adapters, the adapter may heat up beyond the normal level and cause fire
• Do not use a damaged or loose power plug or power outlet. This may cause fire or electric shock.
• Do not cut, bend, or fold the power cord to avoid fire and electric shock.
• Do not insert or remove the power plug with wet hands.

During daily use … To avoid fire, electric shock.

• Do not splash water on or inside the refrigerator.
• This may impair electricity insulation causing electric shock or fire.
• This may also cause gas leakage because of pipe rust.
• This appliance is not intended for use by persons (including children) with reduced physical, sensory, or mental capabilities, or lack of experience and knowledge unless they have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance by a person responsible for their safety.
• Do not hang on the doors or step up on the various compartments.
• Injury may be caused by the refrigerator tipping over or hands getting caught in the door.
• Do not damage the refrigerant circuit.
• If you happen to damage the refrigerant pipe, stay away from the refrigerator and avoid using fire and electrical appliances.
• And, open windows to ventilate and contact retailers or the Hitachi Service Center.
• Ground this refrigerator to prevent electric shock and noise interference. Always ground this refrigerator and install an earth leakage circuit breaker when using it in places with high humidity or moisture. (Please consult with a retailer or Hitachi Service Center.)
• Connect the power plug firmly to a power outlet with the cord running down.
• Connection of the power plug with the cord running up could apply stress on the cord and cause electrical short or overheating, which could result in electrical shock or fire.
• An incomplete connection of the power plug could result in electrical shock or fire due to heat.
• If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the manufacturer, its service agent, or similarly 00 qualified persons to avoid a hazard.
• Clean the dust on the power plug frequently with a dry cloth.
• Unplug the power plug and wipe it with a dry cloth.
• An insulation failure due to moisture or when dust collects on the power plug may cause a fire.
• Be sure to unplug the power plug before maintaining the refrigerator.
• Be sure to hold the power plug to unplug.
• Do not disassemble, repair, or modify the refrigerator by yourselves.
• Please consult with a retailer or Hitachi Service Center if any repair is required.
• Ether, liquid propane gas, solvent, etc. which is volatile cannot be stored in this refrigerator.
• Do not store explosive substances such as aerosol cans with a flammable propellant in this appliance.
• Do not put water containers or foreign articles on the top of the refrigerator.
• Opening and closing doors etc. may cause the articles on the top of the refrigerator may fall, resulting in injury.
• Medicines, chemicals, research, and experimental substances should not be stored in the refrigerator.
• Substances that require precise conditions for storage cannot be stored in a domestic refrigerator.
• Do not use electrical appliances inside the food storage compartments of the appliance, unless they are of the type recommended by the manufacturer.
• In the event of a flammable gas leak, do not touch the refrigerator and open windows for ventilation.
• Sparks from points of electrical contact such as door switches may ignite explosions causing fire or a burn.
• Do not make an impact on the glass-made doors or shelves.
• They are made of tempered glass, however, an excess impact may result in breakage and is dangerous.

When discarding the refrigerator.

• Follow the instructions of your region when discarding.
• This refrigerator uses R-600a for the refrigerant and cyclopentane for the blowing agent of the urethane heat insulation.
• Do not use mechanical devices or other means to accelerate the defrosting process, other than those recommended by the manufacturer.
• Children should be supervised to ensure that they do not play with the appliance.
• Children getting inside may not be able to get out.
• Keep ventilation openings in the appliance enclosure or the built-in structure clear of obstruction.
• If you find something wrong with the refrigerator, immediately unplug it and consult with the retailers or Hitachi Service Center.
• When discarding the refrigerator, remove the door gaskets.
• To avoid the risk of an infant or child being entrapped inside.

CAUTION

• During daily use …To avoid illness and injury.
• Do not put bottles, etc. forcibly in the door pockets.
• This may cause bottles to drop down or door pockets to come off.
• Do not store food that smells or food whose color is changed abnormally.
• Such an action may cause diseases.
• Food and containers inside the freezer compartment should not be touched with wet hands.
• This may cause frost injury. (Especially in the case of metal items.)
• Do not hold the top, bottom, and side of the doors when closing them.
• This may result in your fingers being caught by the door edge.
• If someone else is using the refrigerator, do not open the door.
• Fingers may get caught in the spaces between the doors and may cause injury.
• Do not have food items protruding over the front edge of each shelf.
• Doors may not be closed properly or the door pockets may drop down. Injury may be caused by items like bottles getting knocked over your feet.
• Do not store glass bottles in the freezer compartment.
• Bottles may break by the contents freezing and cause injury.
• Do not store glass bottles in the freezer compartment.
• Bottles may break by the contents freezing and cause injury.
• Do not put your hands on the base surface of the refrigerator cabinet.
• When cleaning, putting your hands near the base surface of the refrigerator may result in injury by thin metal sheets.
• Be sure to hold the handle firmly to open or close the door.
• Do not have your feet too close when opening the door of the refrigerator.
• When opening the door, your feet may be hit, resulting in injury.

When moving or carrying … To avoid damaging, wetting, or soiling the floor, or to avoid injury.

• Do not use door handles when carrying the refrigerator.
• Never use the carrying handles to hang up with a chain hoist or similar machines.
• For a floor that may be easily scratched, lay a protective mat, etc.
• Use the carrying handle when carrying the refrigerator.
• Hold the carrying handles only. If hold door handles, the hands may slip and may cause injury.
• Carry the refrigerator by at least 4 persons for safety reasons.
• Carry it with the doors facing upward.
• Before carrying the refrigerator:
  1. Take out all food items and ice cubes.
  2. Lay a protective sheet or cloth to protect the floor from damage and catch the remaining water spilled from the refrigerator.
  3. With a large piece of old cloth underneath, tilt the refrigerator backward to drain water.
  4. Finally, carry the refrigerator with the doors facing upward.
• Secure the doors well with adhesive tape so they do not open
• If transporting in a vehicle, do not load the refrigerator on its side. This could damage the compressor.

When replacing lamps (LED) is required.

• When replacing lamps (LED) is required. Please contact your dealer or Hitachi Service Center.

Preparations before Use

Installation

1. Install on a rigid and level floor.
2. Please use this refrigerator between the room temperature of 10 C to 43 C. Sufficient performance may not be obtained, if the room temperature is too low or too high.
3. Do not install where the refrigerator is exposed to direct sunlight or other heat sources.
4. Install in an atmosphere that is dry or has air ventilation.
5. The refrigerator requires enough air ventilation space around the cabinet to have efficient cooling performance. Space of at least 30 cm over the top, 10 cm at the rear, and 5 cm at both sides for proper air circulation is needed.
6. Ground the refrigerator to prevent electric shock and noise interference. Always ground this refrigerator when using it in places with high humidity or moisture. (Please consult with retailers or Hitachi Service Center.)
7. Adjusting the adjustable legs to keep the left/right refrigerator door level.
   • Without adjusting the legs, door height may not be level, or there may be abnormal vibrations or noises depending on floor conditions.
   • Follow the instructions below. (1) Turn the adjustable legs until they touch the floor firmly.

Before Use

1. Cleaning inside the refrigerator. Wipe the surface gently with a soft cloth.
2. Connect the refrigerator to an exclusive wall power outlet. The refrigerator can be connected to an outlet soon after it is installed. Surely use with the rated voltage and exclusive power outlet.
3. The compressor will start running in approximately 30 seconds if the inside is not cold.
4. Allow enough duration for sufficient cooling before storing food. It may take about 4 hours to fully cool down and could even take about 24 hours when the ambient temperature is high.

Optimal Food Storage

1. Keep enough space between food. Several food placed too close together may obstruct the flow of cold air.
2. Make food cool enough before putting it in the refrigerator. Putting warm food in the refrigerator raises the inside temperature and wastes electricity.
3. Do not block the cold air vent. This will adversely affect the cold air flow and may not keep the temperature inside even. Moreover, it could result in food near the vent freezing.
4. Using food wrap or sealed containers prevents the food from drying or transitioning of smells.

Location of Food Storage

NOTICE

• The above temperatures are the approximate values in the conditions of outside temperature 32 C, the temperature setting of the refrigerator compartment “Normal”, freezer compartment “Normal”, doors being closed and without food storage.
• Door pocket temperatures may be a little higher than the above temperatures.
• The specification of your purchased model may be different from one of the above illustrations.

How to operation

Temperature control

• This refrigerator controls its temperature automatically. Please adjust a temperature control dial as follows.

• Please return the dial to the position of “Normal” after the “Coldest” has been set. Food may be frozen if the “Coldest” is set for a long time.
• If set the dial to the “Cold” side for a long time, the temperature of the food in the freezer and refrigerator compartment may rise.

Caution about a refrigerator compartment food freeze.

• When you place the high-moisture food and vegetables at the inner part of the shelf near the cold air vent, they will be frozen. If it is possible, please do not place the high-moisture food and vegetables at the inner part of the shelf near the cold air vent.
• When food and vegetables become frozen, you can prevent them from being frozen by wrapping or putting them in the case. If they are still frozen, please adjust the temperature by turning the temperature control dial to “Cold”.

Freezer Compartment

• Ice Making
  • Take the “Ice tray” and pour in water up to the full line.
  • After the ice is made, turn the “Ice tray” by following the arrow to drop the ice.
  • CAUTION When you put the case wrong position you can not close the door properly but if you still try to close the door, it may cause the case to break down.
  • NOTICE Do not twist it as shown in the picture or else it will be damaged.

Refrigerator Compartment

1. Fresh Select Compartment
   • CAUTION
   • If you want to store meat or fish longer, please store them in the freezer compartment.
   • Be careful, it might be frozen if that food has a lot of moisture.
   • When closing the refrigerator door, push the chilled case to close. If you close the door while the chilled case is still pulled out. The chilled case might be broken.
   • Meat and fish can be kept fresh before being frozen.
2. Egg Tray
   • It can place 14 eggs and also turn the rear side to place the small items.
3. Adjusting the shelves.
   • Pull up the back and pull out the shelf forward.
   • Set the refrigerator shelves by combining wich stored food.
4. Spot Cool
   • For items that you want to cool off quickly and powerfully.
   • There is a space prepared on the lower shelf where the direct chilled air hits those items placed here.

CAUTION

• Shelf trims are removable, Holding the shelf with both hands.
• DO NOT hold trim or hold shelf with only one hand otherwise, it may drop or injury.
• Do not store in each case more than the maximum load.

Maintenance

Cleaning (Clean the refrigerator once a month)

1. Unplug the refrigerator.
2. Take out all the food.
3. Wipe the refrigerator clean.
   • Wiping off smudges immediately is highly recommended. It is also recommended to clean the areas of the refrigerator which are not easily accessible, once a year.
   • Use soft cloth with lukewarm water to wipe off smudges. If it is difficult to remove smudges, use diluted, pH-balanced washing liquid.
   • Neatly clean the door gasket, because it gets dirty easily.
4. If any droplets remain on the surface of the parts, wipe them.
5. Return all parts to their original locations.
6. Check and clean the power plug, cord and outlet.
7. Plug the power cord into the outlet.

Notice

• Even if the power plug is plugged in immediately after being unplugged, the compressor will not run for 10 minutes. However, if the inside is not cold, it will start running in approximately 30 seconds.

CAUTION Do not do the following, since parts and paint may be damaged

1. Do not splash water to the doors and refrigerator body.
   • It may cause electric shock or a fire.
   • It may cause refrigerant leakage because of pipe rust.
   • It may result in rusty door surface.
2. Do not use the following: Polishing powder, soap powder, oil, boiling water, brush, acid, benzene, thinner, alcohol alkaline detergent, etc.
   • It may cause a damaged door surface.
   • It may cause cracked plastic parts.
3. If the cooking oil smears on the refrigerator, please wipe if off immediately. The plastic parts might be cracked
   • When replacing lamps (LED) is required Please contact your dealer or Hitachi Service Center.

Troubleshooting

Before you call for service, please check the following items:

This is not a malfunction of the refrigerator.

Dew or Frost is Generated

Why frost and dew are generated?

• When warm and humid air contacts something cold, dew is generated. For example, if you put some ice in the glass in your room, air around the glass will be cold down and some dew may be generated on the outer surface of the glass.
• In the same way, when warm and humid air enters into the refrigerator at the door opening, the warm and humid air contacts the cold inner wall, and little dew may be generated.
• Accordingly, if the door opening is too frequent or too long, dew will be accumulated at every door opening. In some cases, dew may befrozen to generate some frost or ice flakes in the freezer compartment.

About Non-fluorocarbon refrigerator.

• This refrigerator, including refrigerant and the heat insulator, is using hydrocarbon (non-fluorocarbon). Hydrocarbon is a material that does not rip up the ozone and has very little influence on global warming. It is the global environment concern material).
• R600a refrigerant is flammable. But the refrigerant is being sealed up by the refrigerate circuit, and never leaks by usual use. In case the refrigerate circuit is damaged by any chance, please avoid the use of fire and electric products, open the window, and ventilate. Afterwards, please contact the Hitachi Service Center

Severe warning signs for Disposal

• Cyclopentane is used as in the insulation. The gases in insulation material require a special disposal procedure. Please contact your local authorities regarding the environmentally safe disposal of this product.

WARNING

• Children should be supervised to ensure that they do not play with the appliance or get in.
• Children getting inside may not be able to get out.
• This appliance can be used by children aged 8 years and above and persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities or lack of experience and knowledge if they have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance in a sate way and understand the hazards involved.
• Children shall not play with the appliance.
• Cleaning and user maintenance shall not be done by children without supervision.
• The appliance is intended to be used in households and similar applications sush as.
• Staff kitchen areas in shops, offices, and other working environments
• Farm houses and clients in hotels, motels, and other residential-type environments.
• Bed and breakfast type environments.
• Catering and similar non-retail applications.

This symbol mark means that used electrical and electronic products shall not be mixed with general household waste. Do not try to dismantle the system and unit by yourself as this could have harmful effects on your health and the environment. Refrigerators must be treated at a specialized treatment facility for recycling and recovery and shall not be disposed of in the municipal waste stream. Please contact the installer, dealer or local authority for more information.

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