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Before using for the first time
21
Water hardness
The display changes to the water hard‐
ness setting.
– The dishwasher must be program‐
med for the water hardness in your
area.
– Your local water supplier can tell you
the water hardness level in your area.
– Where the water hardness fluctuates
e.g. between 10 - 16 gr/gal (10 - 15
°d), always program the dishwasher
to the higher value (16 gr/gal or 15 °d
in this example).
It is useful to know your water hardness
so that you can provide the service
technician with this information in the
event of any service calls.
Enter the water hardness below:
____________ gr/gal (°d)
The dishwasher is programmed at the
factory for a water hardness level of 1
gr/gal (1 °d).
Use the
arrow buttons to select
the hardness of your water supply
and confirm with
OK
.
See "Settings menu - Water hardness"
for more information.
The message
Set-up successfully com-
pleted
will then appear in the display.
After confirming this with
OK
, the
prompts
Refill salt
and
Refill rinse aid
may appear.
Add salt and rinse aid if necessary
(see "Before using for the first time -
Dishwasher salt" and "Rinse aid").
Confirm the messages with
OK
.
The program selected will appear briefly
in the display and the appropriate indi‐
cator light will come on.
Then, the display will show the estimat‐
ed program duration for the program
selected.
These basic settings will be saved in
memory after the dishwasher has been
through one complete program.