GE JGP637BEJBB Owners Manual - Page 16

Installation Instructions IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ELECTRICAL REQUIREMENTS This Appliance must be electrically grounded. Check with your local codes which apply in your area. If no local codes apply, the National Electrical Code, ANSI/NFPA No. 70-Latest Edition must be followed. Write to: National Fire Protection Association Batterymarch Park Quincy, MA 02269 In Canada, electrical grounding must be in accordance with the current CSA C22.1 Canadian Electrical Code Part 1 and/or local codes. See Installation-Electrical Connections in this section. Be sure the installation of this cooktop in a mobile home conforms with the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standard, Title 24 CFR, Part 3280. If this standard does not apply, you must follow the standard for Manufactured Home Installations, ANSI A225.1 and Manufactured Home Installations, Sites and Communities and ANSI/NFPA 501A or with local codes. You can get a copy of the Federal Standard by Writing: Office of Mobile Home Standards HUD Building 451 7th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 24010 WARNING! INSTALLATION SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS • Make sure the wall coverings, countertop and cabinets around the cooktop can withstand heat generated by the cooktop up to 200°F. • Avoid placing cabinets above the cooktop. To reduce the hazard caused by reaching over the open flames of operating burners, install a ventilation hood over the cooktop that projects forward at least 5″ beyond the front of the cabinets. WARNING! INSTALLATION SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (cont.) • The ventilating hood must be constructed of sheet metal not less than 0.0122″ thick. Install above the cooktop with a clearance of not less than 1/4″ between the hood and the underside of the combustible material or metal cabinet. The hood must be at least as wide as the appliance and centered over the appliance. Clearance between the cooking surface and the ventilation hood surface MUST NEVER BE LESS THAN 24 INCHES. EXCEPTION: Installation of a listed microwave oven or cooking appliance over the cooktop shall conform to the installation instructions packed with that appliance. • If cabinets are placed above the cooktop, allow a minimum clearance of 30″ between the cooking surface and the bottom of unprotected cabinets. • If a 30″ clearance between cooking surface and overhead combustible material or metal cabinets cannot be maintained, protect the underside of the cabinets above the cooktop with not less than 1/4″ insulating millboard covered with sheet metal not less than 0.0122″ thick. Clearance between the cooking surface and protected cabinets MUST NEVER BE LESS THAN 24 INCHES. • The vertical distance from the plane of the cooking surface to the bottom of adjacent overhead cabinets extending closer than 1″ to the plane of the cooktop sides must not be less than 18″. (See the Preparing the Opening section.) • CAUTION: Items of interest to children should not be stored in cabinets above a cooktop-children climbing on the cooktop to reach items could be seriously injured. 16