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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.
water hardness
set
hardness
level
Gremany˚dh France ˚fh
Britain
˚Clark
0-5
0-9
0-6
1
6-11
10-20
7-14
2
12-17
21-30
15-21
3
18-22
31-40
22-28
4
23-31
41-55
29-39
5
32-50
56-90
40-63
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To optimise your dishwasher for the local water hardness, please follow the steps below and refer to
the above table.
1. After resetting the dishwasher, press and hold the
Program
button and then press the
On/Off
button.
2. Keep the
P
programme button pressed until “SL” disappears from the display window.
3. Release the
P
button, the display window will display the latest entered water hardness setting.
4. Press the
P
button repeatedly to adjust the water hardness level.
5. After adjusting the water hardness level, press the
On/Off
button to save the setting.
1˚dh (German degree) = 0.18 mmol/l
1˚fh (French degree) = 0.1 mmol/l
1˚Clark (British degree) = 0.142 mmol/l
• Do not use everyday table salt or cooking salt as they contain insoluble
substances which could damage the dishwasher.
• Do not pour detergent into the salt container. This will damage the dishwasher.
