Filling With Salt For The Water Softener - AEG KDW 3 User Instructions

5. Pressing the water softener button
(Exception: hardness setting 0 follows hardness setting 9).
6. When the hardness setting is correct, press the ON/OFF switch
The hardness setting is then saved.

Filling with Salt for the Water Softener

Use only salt designed for dishwashers. Never fill the salt container
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with any another type of salt (e.g. culinary salt) or dishwasher deter-
gent as this would irreparably damage the water softener.
Prior to filling with salt, please check each time that you really do have
a packet of dishwasher salt in your hand.
Fill with dishwasher salt:
– Prior to using the dishwasher for the first time
– When the SALT indicator
If the water hardness in your area is less than 4 °d, you do not need to
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use dishwasher salt. The SALT indicator
remain illuminated.
0 1. Open the door, remove the lower
rack.
2. Undo the lid on the salt container by
turning it anticlockwise.
3. When using for the first time:
fill the salt container with water.
4. Place the funnel supplied on the con-
tainer opening.
Fill the container with salt through
the funnel; the capacity of the con-
tainer is approx. 1.0-1.5 kg depend-
ing on the grain size. Do not overfill
the salt container with salt.
The water expelled by filling the salt container with salt runs out of the
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salt container onto the base of the washing compartment. This is not a
cause for concern, the water will be pumped out at the start of the
next wash programme.
5. Clean any salt remnants on the container opening.
6. Turn the lid clockwise to the stop, otherwise dishwasher salt will leak
into the wash water. Dull glasses may result.
increases the hardness setting by 1.
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on the control panel is illuminated.
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on the control panel will
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