Filling With Salt For The Water Softener - AEG ÖKO FAVORIT 5070 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 special salt for dishwashers. Never fill the salt container with
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any another type of salt (e.g. culinary salt) or dishwasher detergent, 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 on the control panel is illuminated.
If the water hardness in your area is less than 4 °d, you do not need to
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use dishwasher salt.
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
container 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 special salt runs
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out of the 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.
Operating instructions
increases the hardness setting by 1.
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