Starting and stopping the week program

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The appliance's default week program switches the appliance on every day at 00:00 and off at 23:59. The default water temperature setting is 65°C.

If you want, you can change every setting in the appliance's standard week program.

If the water temperature becomes too low while the week program is running, the appliance will run through the heating cycle (9.3 "The appliance's heating cycle") and return to the week program.

This following are discussed:

•Starting and stopping the week program

•Changing the appliance's standard week program

•Adding times to a week program

•Deleting times from a week program

11.5Starting and stopping the week program

The week program can be started up from any other operating mode, as follows:

1. : WEEK PROGRAM START OPERATION

Confirm with .

A week program can be shut down simply by activating a different operating mode, for example the "ON mode".

11.6Changing the appliance's standard week program

Note

First fill-in the desired week program on the supplied week program card.

A week program is made up of a number of programmable periods in which you can have the appliance switch on and off. A period consists of:

•switch-on time: day of the week, hours and minutes:

•switch-off time: hours and minutes;

•the water temperature setting;

•on/off setting for a program-controlled pump.

Note

The switch-off time must always be followed by a switch-off time on the same day of the week. A maximum of three periods may be programmed per day. You can program a maximum of 21 periods.

Call up the menu for the week program as follows:

•: WEEK PROGRAM PROGRAM OVERVIEW.

Confirm with .

WEEK PROGRAM START OPERATION

^»PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The display shows the menu for the week program, see the figure below. With the default setting, the program switches on and off every day at 00:00 and 23:59 hours respectively, the water temperature is 65°C and the pump is switched on (P).

	DAY	TIME	Tset
ON »SU		00:00	65ÉC P
OFF	SU	23:59
ON	MO	00:00	65ÉC P

OFF	MO	23:59
ON	TU	00:00	65ÉC P
OFF	TU	23:59
ON	WE	00:00	65ÉC P
OFF	WE	23:59
ON	TH	00:00	65ÉC P
OFF	TH	23:59
ON	FR	00:00	65ÉC P
OFF	FR	23:59
ON	SA	00:00	65ÉC P
OFF	SA	23:59

INSERT

DELETE

START OPERATION

Example

As an example, we will set the switch-on time for Sunday to 08:15 hours, and the matching switch-off time to 12:45 hours. The water temperature will be set to 75 °C and the pump will run continuously.

The following settings are entered one by one via the menu: the switch-on time, the switch-off time, the desired water temperature, and the mode of the program-controlled pump.

11.6.1Week program: setting the switch- on time

1.Bring the cursor to SU

Confirm with .

ON	»SU 00:00
OFF	SU	23:59
Tset	65ÉC
PUMP	ON	SAVE

The day indicated by » flashes.

2.Use and to set the desired day. In the example this is SU (Sunday).

Confirm with .

ON	SU»00:00
OFF	SU	00:59
Tset	65ÉC
PUMP	ON	SAVE

The cursor moves to the hour digits, which flash.

3.Use and to set the hours. In the example, this is 08.

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