How to set water hardness in order to always assure the best cleaning results | First time use |
Water hardness should be set only | - | Press and hold together Programs and |
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- | Programmes LEDs will indicate the water hardness setting. | ||||
hardness has been changed | |||||
| - Press the Programs button to increase setting (when the level reaches 7, the next key press will set the level back to 1. | ||||
| - Wait 30 seconds (control panel switches off) or press START/Resume button to save setting. | ||||
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1. Ask your water supply company what the water hardness is... | 2. ...enter this value on | Suggestions for detergent use |
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German | French | English | Water hardness | lit on the panel |
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(rinse aid and | Tablets | ||||||||||
degrees °dH | degrees °fH | degrees °eH | level | (see table of programmes) | |||||||
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0 | - 5 | 0 | - 9 | 0 - 6.3 | Soft | 1 |
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6 - 10 | 10 | - 18 | 7 - 12.6 | Medium | 2 |
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11 | - 15 | 19 | - 27 | 13.3 - 18.9 | Average | 3 |
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16 | - 21 | 28 | - 37 | 19.6 - 25.9 | 4 |
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22 | - 28 | 38 | - 50 | 26.6 - 35 | Hard | 5 |
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29 | - 35 | 51 | - 63 | 35.7 - 44.1 | Very hard | 6 |
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36 | - 60 | 64 - 107 | 44.8 - 74.9 | Extremely hard | 7 |
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| “Daily check”) |
Water hardness level is factory set for
Even if you use tablets which include salt, you must still add regeneration salt since such detergents are not effective enough at softening hard water.
At first time use, the salt reservoir has to be filled independently from water hardness level (see description below in step 1 “Daily check”).
Filling the salt reservoir - Dissolve limescale (not necessary if water hardness level is set to “soft”!) | Daily check |
1- salt reservoir
2- rinse aid dispenser
3- detergent dispenser
1 | Visual indicator |
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| Unscrew cap. |
Fill the salt reservoir with water | Add salt (never add detergent!) |
before the first wash only. | min. 1.5 kg / max. 2 kg |
Screw on the cap. Salt residual around the cap need to be removed. Some salt reservoir have a level indicator integrated in the cap (see below how to check).
4- racks system
5,6,7,8- available functions on the panel
9- filters
10- spray arms
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The salt level indicator lamp may remain lit Salt indicator on the control panel | Salt indicator on the salt reservoir cap | |||
at the end of several wash cycles. If the | The indicator lamp lights up when SALT | orange: | clear: NEEDS TO | |
water hardness level falls within category | ||||
NEEDS TO BE ADDED. | OK. | BE ADDED | ||
(soft), no salt is required. | ||||
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