Measuring The Water Hardness - Saeco Incanto HD8911 User Manual

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DESCALE BEFORE
ACTIVATING FILTER

Measuring the water hardness

1 2
3 4
numbers of red squares
1
2
3
4
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The display tells you that you need to descale the machine
before activating the new filter.
2 Press the OK button to start the descaling procedure.
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Press the escape button several times to leave the filter
menu if you do not want to descale right away.
3 At the end of the descaling procedure, the display asks you if
you want to install the AquaClean filter.
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Follow the steps in 'Replacing the AquaClean filter'.
To be able to adjust the machine settings to the water in your
region, please measure the water hardness with the water hardness
strip supplied.
1
Immerse the water hardness test strip (supplied with the
machine) in tap water for 1 second.
2 Remove the water hardness strip and and wait for 1 minute.
3 Check how many squares have changed into the red colour and
check the water hardness in below table.
value to be set
1
2
3
4
water hardness
very soft water
soft water
hard water
very hard water