Capresso Impressa J5 warranty Changing the Water Hardness Monitor Ready, 17.1

•Insert the stick for one second into the water you want to use. Shake off any access water and wait for one minute.

•If all five fields of the test stick turn reddish, set the hardness level to 5 squares. If four fields turn reddish, set the hardness level to 4 squares and so on.

Please note: If you use Spring Water or Bottled Water you can set the hardness level to 3ºdH, "extremely soft water".

The machine will give you the following options:

INACTIVE, the hardness monitor is turned off. In this case you must use distilled water.

Water Hardness level	Display	Equivalent	Indicator strip
	... º DH	American Grains	number of
			“reddish” fields
1. extremely soft water	1 to 4	1 to 5	None
2. soft water	5 to 9	6 to 11	1 to 2
3. medium water	10 to 14	12 to 18	2 to 3
4. hard water	15 to 19	19 to 24	3 to 4
5. very hard water	20 to 24	25 to 30	4 to 5
6. extremely hard water	25 to 30	31 & higher	all 5

Tip: If your tap water falls into the categories 5 and 6, we

recommend using bottled water. Please note: If you use the Clearyl Filter with such hard water we recommend decalcifying the machine once or twice a year (chapter 18.3).

16.1CHANGING THE WATER HARDNESS MONITOR READY

• Push the rotary dial. RINSE.

• Turn the rotary dial until the display shows HARDNESS.

• Push the rotary dial. The display shows 10º DH.

•Turn the rotary dial until desired hardness level is displayed.

•Push the rotary dial to confirm the setting. OK, HARDNESS.

•Turn the rotary dial until the display shows EXIT.

•Push the rotary dial. The display shows READY.

The machine will automatically remind you when it is time to decalcify (chapter 18.3).

17.PROGRAMMING / INFORMATION / MAINTENANCE The J5 provides programming, maintenance and look-up functions. With the display at READY you can access these functions as follows:

• Push and hold the Rotary Dial until the display shows RINSE. The J5 offers the following functions (see chart).

• Turn the dial clockwise slowly to scroll through Functions. Please note: to get back to READY, turn the Rotary

Dial until the display shows EXIT, then push the Rotary Dial.

Display	Function/Comment	Chapter
RINSE	Select from RINSE, CLEAN, DE-SCALE	17.1
	to run additional maintenance programs
	outside the automatic prompts.
BUTTONS	Change for all six beverage buttons the	17.2
	parameters like cup volume, coffee
	strength, temperature, steam duration.
FILTER	Install and activate the CLEARYL filter.	15.1
	If the filter is installed, the program
	HARDNESS will not show up

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