Water hardness
Water softener
adjustment
German
degrees
(°dH)
French
degrees
(°fH)
mmol/l Clarke
degrees
Manual Elec-
tronic
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 softener
manually and electronically.
Manual adjustment
Turn the water hardness dial to the position
1 or 2.
Electronic adjustment
1. Press the on/off button to activate the
appliance. Make sure that the appliance
is in setting mode. Refer to ‘SETTING
AND STARTING A PROGRAMME’.
2. Press and hold function buttons (B) and
(C) at the same time until the indicators
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 showing
the current setting of the water soft-
ener.
– 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 flash-
es + pause + 5 acoustic signals
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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