Water hardness
Water softener
adjustment
German
degrees
(°dH)
French
degrees
(°fH)
mmol/l Clarke
degrees
Manual Elec-
tronic
43 - 50 76 - 90 7.6 - 9.0 53 - 63
2
1)
9
37 - 42 65 - 75 6.5 - 7.5 46 - 52
2
1)
8
29 - 36 51 - 64 5.1 - 6.4 36 - 45
2
1)
7
23 - 28 40 - 50 4.0 - 5.0 28 - 35
2
1)
6
19 - 22 33 - 39 3.3 - 3.9 23 - 27
2
1)
5
1)
15 - 18 26 - 32 2.6 - 3.2 18 - 22 1 4
11 - 14 19 - 25 1.9 - 2.5 13 - 17 1 3
4 - 10 7 - 18 0.7 - 1.8 5 - 12 1 2
< 4 < 7 < 0.7 < 5
1
2)
1
2)
1)
Factory position.
2)
Do not use salt at this level.
You must adjust the water soften-
er manually and electronically.
Manual adjustment
Turn the water hardness dial to the posi-
tion 1 or 2.
Electronic adjustment
1. Press the on/off button to activate the
appliance. Make sure that the appli-
ance is in setting mode, refer to ‘Set-
ting and starting a programme’.
2. Press and hold function buttons (B)
and (C) at the same time until the indi-
cators of function buttons (A), (B) and
(C) start to flash.
3. Press function button (A).
• The indicators of function buttons
(B) and (C) go off.
• The indicator of function button (A)
continues to flash.
• Intermittent acoustic signals operate
and the end indicator flashes show-
ing the current setting of the water
softener.
– The number of flashes of the end
indicator and the number of the
acoustic signals show the level of
the water softener.
E.g. 5 acoustic signals and 5
flashes + pause + 5 acoustic sig-
nals and 5 flashes = level 5.
4. Press function button (A) again and
again to change the setting. Each time
you press function button (A) you go
to the next level.
5. Deactivate the appliance to confirm
the setting.
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