9
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.
- Press and hold together and buttons for
minimum 3 seconds.
- The current water hardness setting will be visible
on the display.
- Press the 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 button to save setting.
Water hardness level is factory set for
medium-hard water (level 4).
Detergents
When you use Powder or Gel you must use
salt and set up water hardness level as
indicated in the table on the right.
Also when you use Tablets which include
salt functionality you must still add
regeneration salt.
1. Ask your water supply company what the water hardness is...
2. ...enter this value
on your dishwasher
SALT
required
German
degrees °dH
French
degrees °fH
English
degrees °eH
Water hardness
level
Insert value is
shown in the
display
0 -5 0 - 9 0 - 6.3 Soft 1 NO
6 - 10 10 - 18 7 - 12.6 Medium 2
YES
11 - 15 19 - 27 13.3 - 18.9 Average 3
16 - 21 28 - 37 19.6 - 25.9 Medium-hard 4
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 7
