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REFRIGERATOR
7.6 cu 
HME030291N
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BEFORE FIRST USE:
To prevent any internal damage, it is very important to keep
refrigeration units (like this one) upright throughout their journey.
Please leave it standing upright and outside the box for 24 HOURS
before plugging it in.

Important Satety Instructions
Operating Instructions
Cleaning and Maintenance
Troubleshooting
Specications
Warranty
Manufacturing Info
Warning
Contact Us
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Important Safety Instructions
SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS
For Household Use Only
When using your appliance, basic safety precautions should always be followed to reduce
the risk of re, electrical shock, and/or injury to persons. Incorrect operation due to ignoring
instructions may cause harm or damage.
1. This appliance must be grounded. Connect only to properly grounded outlet. This appliance must
be grounded due to the event of an electrical short circuit. This appliance is equipped with a cord
having a grounding wire with a grounding plug. The plug must be plugged into an outlet that is
properly installed and grounded.
2. Install or locate this refrigerator only in accordance with the provided Installation Instructions.
3. To protect against electric shock, do not place cord, plug, or refrigerator in water or other liquid.
4. The refrigerant of this product is R600a, which is ammable. Make sure not to damage the cooling
system during the transportation and installation.
5. Please note that servicing shall be done by qualied service personnel, so as to minimize the risk of
possible ignition due to incorrect parts or improper service.
6. This appliance can only 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 safe way and understand the hazards
involved. Children shall not play with the appliance. Cleaning and maintenance shall not be made by
children without supervision.
Warnings related to disposal
Suffocation Hazard: Remove doors from your old refrigerator. Failure to do so can result in death or brain
damage.
Before you throw away your old refrigerator or freezer:
- Take off the doors;
- Leave the shelves in place so that children may not easily climb inside.
- All refrigeration products contain refrigerants, which under federal law must be removed prior to
product disposal. Check with a qualied disposal company for instructions.
Warnings related to Electrical Shock Hazard
- Plug into a grounded 3 prong outlet.
- Do not remove ground prong.
- Do not use an adapter.
- Do not use an extension cord.
- Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, re, or
electrical shock.
Three-pronged
(grounding) plug
Properly polarized and
grounded outlet

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Location requirements
It is recommended that you do not install the refrigerator near an oven, radiator, or other heat
source.
Do not install in a location where the temperature will fall below 55°F (13°C). For best performance,
do not install the refrigerator behind a cabinet door.
Warnings related to Explosion Hazard
Keep ammable materials and vapors, such as gasoline away from refrigerator. Failure to do so can
result in death, explosion, or re.
Do not store explosive substances such as aerosol cans with a ammable propellant in this
appliance. Do not use any electrical appliance inside the refrigerator, unless they are of the type
recommended by the manufacturer.
Note:
• When there is suspected gas leak, do not plug or unplug from the
power outlet. Doing so may cause spark and start a re or trigger an
explosion.
• Don’t splash water on the rear of the appliance. It may cause
malfunction or electric shock.
• Do not place bottled beverage in the freezer. It might break.
• Do not place any object on the top of appliance which is magnetic,
heavy, or lled with water. Electronic components may not work
steadily if water gets inside.
Important Safety Instructions

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• Remove the tape of the drawers, balconies, egg tray, and the drain tube plug. Clean the inside of
the refrigerator.
• Refrain from slamming the drawerrs, bottle guards, and shelves to avoid breakage.
• Refrain from frequently opening the door.
• Keep the combination of drawers, baskets and shelves of the refrigerator in their intended places.
INSTALLATION
1. Choose a location where it is not exposed to sunlight, heat source or humidity,
as humidity may cause stain.
2. Pull out the bottom panel before installation.
3. Make sure the refrigerator is placed in a well-ventilated, indoor environment on
at, sturdy ground (turning the leveling legs clockwise to raise the appliance,
and counter-clockwise to lower the appliance). Put a sheet under the appliance
to isolate the heat emission if it is located onto a carpet.
4. Make sure the leveling legs are clung to the oor. Tilt the appliance slightly to
the back to keep the doors closed tightly.
Operating Instructions
PARTS DESCRIPTION
1. Freezer shelf
2. Lamp and temperature
control knob
3. Lamp switch
4. Glass shelf
5. Drain tube plug
6. Crisper glass cover
7. Vegetable crisper
8. Middle bottle guard
9. Big bottle guard
11.8inch
2inch
2inch

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REVERSING THE DOOR
You can choose to open your refrigerator to the
left or to the right.To change how the door opens,
follow the instructions below.
Important safety warning: Unplug the appliance
before assembly.
Aside from the included accessories, you will need:
Medium-sized cross screwdriver
Small slotted screwdriver
1. Make sure the refrigerator is unplugged from
the power source.
2. Open the upper door, and close the lower door.
3. Take off the protective covers on both sides
of upper cover with a Phillips screwdriver
through the back side, and keep the protective
covers.
4. Remove the 2 self-tapping screws on the left
side of door hinge, and keep them.
5. Push the door and door hinge forward.
Remove the door and keep it aside.
6. Remove the third self-tapping screw and
keep it.
7. Slightly tilt the upper hinge in order to remove
it from the door.
8. Open the lower door.
9. Remove the 2 screws and keep them.
10. Open the door in order to remove the bottom
hinge and keep it.
11. Remove the middle hinge.
12. Use a solid plug around the hole to pull it out.
Pull out the plug hole and keep them.
13. Slightly tilt the machine backward against the
wall.
14. Remove the 2 xed feet.
15. Remove the bottom hinge.
16. Assemble the bottom hinge on the other side
of the machine.
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REVERSING THE DOOR (CONT.)
17. Fix up the feet.
18. Exchange the 2 bolts and x them on the
other side.
19. Remove the xed plate of hinge on the lower
door, and x it on the other side.
20.Fix the lower door on the outside bolts.
21. Fix the middle hinge on the lower door.
22.Put the lower door into the left side in correct
way.
23.Close the lower door.
24. Remove the right closer and x the left closer
on the other side of the upper door.
25.Put the self-tapping screws in the hinge on the
door opening position, but not xed.
26.Fix the upper door in door bolt which is near
the middle hinge.
27. Twist the upper hinge carefully inside the
blank position of the door.
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Operating Instructions
REVERSING THE DOOR (CONT.)
28.Fix the upper hinge with screw B, and x
the self-tapping screw A.
29.Assemble the protective box in the upper
cover of the upper door.
30.Check all parts of the door if they are xed
tightly. You can use a paper insert inside
every parts of the door related, see if the
paper drop down easily, make sure the
paper won’t drop down.
31. If the tightness on every parts is not even,
you can pull the obstructions by hand after
heating with hair-dryer in related parts
which has problem.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR DOOR CLOSER
The left door closer The right door closer Tapping screws
The door is set to open from the left side. If the door is switched to open from the right side, follow
the instructions below:
1. Remove the tapping screws of the right door closer, and take out the right door closer.
2. Install the left door closer, and x the door closer on the door through the tapping screws.

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Operating Instructions
PLACEMENT OF FOOD
1. Leave ample space between food items inside for proper air circulation.
2. It is recommended to keep fresh food in sealed package to avoid becoming dry or catching odor.
3. Hot food should be cooled down before placing into the appliance. Otherwise, the interior
temperature and power consumption will increase.
4. Reducing the frequency of door opening will efciently save power consumption.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
The temperature of refrigerator can be controlled manually by the knob.
However, the number shown on the knob does not directly represent the
temperature. The larger the number, the lower the temperature. 0 stops the
cooling but does not turn off the power. Usually, turn the knob to level 4 in a
normal condition. Turn to level 5-7 if a lower interior temperature is required.
Turn to level 1-3 for a higher temperature.
MOVING
WARNING:
Excessive Weight Hazard
Use two or more people to move and install refrigerator. Failure to do so can result in back or other injury.
1. Before using the refrigerator for the rst time, remove all of the packing materials, including the
foam base and adhesive tape holding accessories in place.
2. The refrigerator should be located on a rm, at surface that is strong enough to support the
refrigerator when it is fully loaded.
3. Leave a minimum of ½” between each side of the appliance and the wall. The top and back of the
appliance should have a minimum of 1 ½” clearance. This allows for proper air circulation. This
appliance is intended to be free-standing and should not be built-in or placed in a recessed area.
4. The refrigerator legs must be adjusted during installation in order to function properly. The leveling
legs on the front corners can be adjusted by turning clockwise to raise the appliance, and counter-
clockwise to lower it. Be sure to have the appliance slope slightly backward to ensure that the door
closes tightly.
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Cleaning and Maintenance
The appliance should be maintained and cleaned frequently. For your safety, unplug from the socket
before cleaning.
CLEANING YOUR APPLIANCE
Dusting behind the refrigerator and on the ground will improve the cooling effect and save energy. The
interior of the refrigerator should be cleaned to avoid any odor. Follow the cleaning procedure below:
1. Unplug the refrigerator.
2. Wipe the door and door seal with warm water and mild detergent. Rinse thoroughly and dry with a
clean, soft cloth.
3. Use a mixture of warm water and baking soda (about 1-2 tablespoons per quart of water) to clean
the interior of the refrigerator.
4. Use a sponge or soft cloth and make sure to wipe excess moisture out before cleaning around the
controls.
5. Rinse thoroughly with warm water and dry with a clean soft cloth.
6. Reconnect the refrigerator when it is clean and dry.
Note:
Do not use hard brushes, wire brushes, abrasives, organic solvents, boiling water, acid, or alkaline items as
this may damage the refrigerator surface and interior. Cleansers such as soap powder, abrasive cleaning
powder, alkali cleansers, chemical cloth, thinner, alcohol, acid petroleum product and hot water may
damage the painted cover and plastics.
REPLACING INTERIOR LIGHT
The displacement of interior light Uninstall the cover and replace the light with a screwing light (E14 ,
110V/10W), Consult the following pictures:
1) Pry the bolt on the thermostat
away from the lamp shade about
2mm with the tool.
2) Meanwhile take another side as
the center to rotate the lamp shade
outwards.
3) Take out the lamp shade along
the direction of the arrow.
4) Rotate and take out the bulb in
counterclockwise direction.

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Cleaning and Maintenance
DEFROST
The heavy frost will inuence the refrigerating effect and increase the energy consumption. Defrosting is
needed when the frost is as thick as 0.2 inch.
For manual defrosting, please follow these steps:
1. Take all the food and ice cube tray out of the compartments.
2. Unplug the refrigerator.
3. Defrosting may take several hours. Open the door to speed up the process.
4. Wipe out the water with dry cloth when defrosting is completed.
WARNING:
Do not use sharp objects to accelerate the defrosting process. It may destroy the compartment walls and
cooling system. This will void warranty.
POWER FAILURE
After power failure, the refrigerator is still able to store food for several hours.
1. After power failure, do not put additional food in the appliance and reduce the frequency of door opening.
Put some ice cubes in a container in the top part of the fridge if the power failure was known beforehand.
2. Take out perishable food before short vacation. Close the door rmly. Take out all food and cut off
the power during long vacations.
3. Stop using if you don’t want to use the refrigerator for a long time. Unplug it and clean the appliance.
The door should be kept open in order to prevent unpleasant smell caused by food residuals.
ATTENTION:
Get rid of the door gasket before disposal. The disposed parts should be handled by professional staff, as
it may be harmful to the environment.
Under general conditions do not stop and restart the appliance frequently. After switching off the power,
please leave at least 5 minutes before resumption.
WARNING:
1. Do not splash water on the refrigerator, as it will cause oxidation and malfunction. Electronic
component such as On/off button should be kept dry.
2. Smear can damage the interior plastic component, so wipe it as soon as possible.

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Troubleshooting
Problem Possible Causes & Solutions
The refrigerator does not work It may not be connected to the power supply (plug,
power cut or fuse); Voltage is too low.
Unplug, wait for 10 seconds and plug again. Or consult a
professional service provider.
The refrigerator does not work
efciently as expected
It may be caused by heavy frost, or by warm
temperature setting, or by frequently door operating.
Lower the temperature. Make sure the door is closed.
Vibration noise The appliance is placed on uneven ground, or by
resonation between the appliance and other ambient
objects.
Adjust the leveling legs, or move away from the object.
The compressor runs too long or cycles
on/off frequently
The environment temperature may be too high. The
doors may be opened frequently or they are left
open. The temperature setting in high level (4-7) can
also increase the working time of compressor. Adjust
temperature to a warmer setting.
Odor in the refrigerator Food with strong odor should be packed tightly before
putting inside the appliance. Check whether there is any
deteriorated food or whether the liners are left dirty for
a long time.
Heavy frost occurs on the rear of the
appliance
Putting humid or hot food into the appliance may cause
this problem.
Water leaks from the bottom of the
refrigerator
The drain tube is jammed. Use a proper tool to clean it.
It is normal that:
• Moisture may form on the outside of the product during the humid season.
• The sides of product get warm as a result of the cooling pipeline working.
• The ow of refrigerant through the coils causes noises.
If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the manufacturer, its service agent or similarly
qualied persons in order to avoid a hazard.

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Specications
Parameter Value
Electric shock protection type I
Capacity (cu.ft)
Freezer 1.6
Refrigerator 6.0
Voltage (VAC) 120
Frequency (Hz) 60
Current (A) 1.4
Noice [dB(A)] ≤42
Energy consumption (kW.h/year) 347
Refrigerant R600a/1.23oz
Net Weight 88.62 lbs
Interior temperature (°F)
Freezer ≤0
Refrigerator 32~46.4
Unit dimension (in inches)
Width 21.61
Depth 22.36
Height 55.59

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HME030291N
Warranty
Manufacturing Info
This manual is to be used with all items with the model number
SKU# : HME030291N
Rated voltage/Frequency: 120V~ 60Hz 1.4A
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