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First time use
How to set water hardness in order to always
assure the best cleaning results.
Water hardness should be set only before the
first wash or if water hardness has been
changed.
Water hardness level is factory set for
medium-hard water (level 4).
Even if you use tablets which include salt
functionality, 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”).
- Press and hold together PROGRAM Selection and
CANCEL/Off buttons for minimum 3 seconds.
- The current water hardness setting will be visible
on the display.
- Press the PROGRAM Selection button to increase
setting. Value range goes from 1 to 7 (when the
level reaches 7, the next press of the start button
will set the level back to 1).
- Wait 30 seconds (control panel switches off) or
press Start/Resume button to save setting).
1. Ask your water supply company what the
water hardness is...
2. ...enter this
value on your
dishwasher
Suggestions for detergent use
German
degrees
°dH
French
degrees
°fH
English
degrees
°eH
Water
hardness
level
Insert value is
shown in the
display
Gel or Powder
(rinse aid and
salt)
Tablets
0 -5 0 - 9 0 - 6.3 Soft 1
go to step 1
(see “Daily
check”)
6 - 10 10 - 18 7 - 12.6 Medium 2
11 - 15 19 - 27 13.3 - 18.9 Average 3
16 - 21 28 - 37 19.6 - 25.9
Medium-
hard
4
if water is
HARD extra salt
needs to be
added (go to
step 1, “Daily
check”)
22 - 28 38 - 50 26.6 - 35 Hard 5
29 - 35 51 - 63 35.7 - 44.1 Very hard 6
36 - 50 64 - 90 44.8 - 62.4
Extremely
hard
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