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adjusting salt consumption
Salt consumption must be adjusted to correspond to the water hardness level in your area. If you don’t
know how hard the water in your home is, please ask the company that supplies water in your area.
It is recommended that adjustments should be made in accordance with the following chart.
1˚dh (German degree) = 0.18 mmol/l
1˚fh (French degree) = 0.1 mmol/l
1˚Clark (British degree) = 0.142 mmol/l
water
hardness
level
German
hardness
dH
French
hardness
dF
British
hardness
dE
hardness level indicator
1
0-5
0-9
0-6
2
6-11
10-20
7-14
3
12-17
21-30
15-21
4
18-22
31-40
22-28
5
23-31
41-55
29-39
6
32-50
56-90
40-63
To adjust your dishwasher for the local water hardness, please follow these steps and refer to the
table above.
1. With the dishwasher switched off press and hold the P
button.
Press and hold
Switch on while
holding button P down
Press and hold
Switch on while
holding button P down
2. While holding the P button down press the Power button to
switch the dishwasher on.
3. Keep holding the P button down until you see all 5
Programme indicators flash ONCE. Then the indicators
will show the current salt setting.
All indicators flash once
4. Press the P button to scroll through the levels. The indicators
will change with each press. See the table above for details.
5. To save your setting switch the dishwasher off by
pressing the POWER button.
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