AEG-Electrolux T76480AH User Manual

LAVATHERM 76480AH

TUMBLE DRYER USER MANUAL

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CONTENTS

4 SAFETY INFORMATION
6 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
7 ACCESSORIES

9 CONTROL PANEL
10 BEFORE FIRST USE
10 PROGRAMMES
12 USING THE APPLIANCE
16 HINTS AND TIPS
17 CARE AND CLEANING
24 TROUBLE SHOOTER AND SERVICE
26 TECHNICAL INFORMATION
27 INSTALLATION

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General information and tips

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FOR PERFECT RESULTS

Thank you for choosing this AEG product. We have created it to give you
impeccable performance for many years, with innovative technologies that help
make life simpler – features you might not find on ordinary appliances. Please spend
a few minutes reading to get the very best from it.

ACCESSORIES AND CONSUMABLES

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appliances looking spotless and working perfectly. Along with a wide range of
accessories designed and built to the high quality standards you would expect, from
specialist cookware to cutlery baskets, from bottle holders to delicate laundry bags…

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CUSTOMER CARE AND SERVICE

We recommend the use of original spare parts.

When contacting Service, ensure that you have the following data available. The
information can be found on the rating plate.

Model

PNC

Serial Number

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SAFETY INFORMATION

In the interest of your safety and to en­sure the correct use, before installing
and first using the appliance, read this
user manual carefully, including its hints
and warnings. To avoid unnecessary
mistakes and accidents, it is important
to ensure that all people using the ap­pliance are thoroughly familiar with its
operation and safety features. Save
these instructions and make sure that
they remain with the appliance if it is
moved or sold, so that everyone using
it through its life will be properly in­formed on appliance use and safety.

- Read the instruction manual be-

fore the appliance use.

GENERAL SAFETY

• It is dangerous to alter the specifica­tions or attempt to modify this product
in any way.

• This appliance is not intended for use
by persons (including children) with re­duced physical and sensory conditions
or lack of experience and knowledge,
unless they have been given supervi­sion or instruction concerning use of
the appliance by a person responsible
for their safety.

• Make sure that small children and pets
do not climb inside the drum. To avoid
this, please check into the drum before
using.

• Any objects such as coins, safety pins,
nails, screws, stones or any other hard,
sharp material can cause extensive
damage and must not be placed into
the machine.

• Items such as foam rubber (latex foam),
shower caps, waterproof textiles (if
there is no special drying programme),
rubber backed articles and clothes or
pillows fitted with foam rubber pads
must not be dried in the tumble dryer.

• Make sure that there is access to the
mains plug after the installation.

• Always unplug the appliance after use,
cleaning and maintenance.

• Under no circumstances should you at­tempt to repair the machine yourself.
Repairs carried out by inexperienced

persons may cause injury or serious
malfunctioning. Contact your local
Service Centre. Always insist on genu­ine spare parts.

•Items that have been soiled with sub­stances such as cooking oil acetone,
petrol, kerosene, spot removers, tur­pentine, waxes and wax removers
should be washed in hot water with an
extra amount of detergent before be­ing dried in the tumble dryer.

• Danger of explosion: Never tumble
dry items that have been in contact with
inflammable solvents (petrol, methyla­ted spirits, dry cleaning fluid and the
like). As these substances are volatile,
they could cause an explosion. Only
tumble dry items washed with water.

• Risk of fire: items that have been spot­ted or soaked with vegetable or cook­ing oil constitute a fire hazard and
should not be placed in the tumble dry­er.

• If you have washed your laundry with
stain remover you must execute an ex­tra rinse cycle before loading your tum­ble dryer.

• Please make sure that no gas lighters or
matches have accidentally been left in
pockets of garments incase they are
loaded into appliance

• The condensed water is not applicable
to drink or to prepare food. It can cause
health problems to people and pets.

• Do not seat or lean on the load door.
The appliance can tilt.

WARNING!

• Risk of fire! To prevent from
the risk of self combustion do
not stop a tumble dryer be­fore the end of the drying cy­cle unless all items are quickly
removed and spread out so
that the heat is dissipated.

• Lint must not be allowed to
accumulate around the tum­ble dryer.

• Risk of electric shock! Do not spray
down the appliance with jets of water.

• The final part of a tumble dryer cycle
occurs without heat ( cool down cycle )

to ensure that the items are left at a
temperature that ensures that items will
not be damaged.

• The tumble dryer is not to be used if in­dustrial chemicals have been used for
cleaning.

• Ensure you have good ventilation in the
installation room to avoid the back flow
of gases into the room from appliances
burning other fuels, including open
fires.

INSTALLATION

• This appliance is heavy. Be careful
when you move the appliance.

• When unpacking the appliance, check
that it is not damaged. If in doubt, do
not use it and contact the Service Cen­tre.

• All packaging must be removed before
use. Dangerous damage can occur to
the product and to property if this is
not adhered to. See relevant section in
the user manual.

• Each electrical work necessary to install
this appliance must be done by a quali­fied electrician or competent person.

• The rear surface of the appliance must
be put against the wall

• If the appliance is installed on the car­pet or equivalent, adjust the feet. Air
must flow freely below the appliance.

• After the appliance installation, check
that it is not squeeze or stay on the
electrical supply cable.

• If the tumble dryer is put on top of a
washing machine, it is mandatory to use
the stacking kit (optional accessory ­see chapter: "ACCESSORIES").

USE

• This appliance is for domestic use only.
It must not be used for other functions .

• Only dry fabrics which are applicable to
dry in the tumble dryer. Follow the in­structions on each piece of clothing la­bel.

• Do not dry not washed items in the
tumble dryer.

• Do not put more load than recommen­ded. Obey the maximum load volume.
See the related chapter in the user
manual.

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• Clothes which are dripping wet must
not be put in the tumble dryer.

• Garments which have been in contact
with volatile petroleum products should
not be machine dried. If volatile clean­ing fluids are used, care should be tak­en to ensure that the fluid is removed
from the garment before placing in the
appliance.

• Do not use the tumble dryer if the pow­er supply cable, the control panel, the
working surface or the base are dam­aged so that the inside of the tumble
dryer is accessible.

• Fabric softener or equivalent products
must be used as specified by the fabric
softener manufacturer.

• Risk of fire! Do not dry the damaged
items which contain padding or fillings
(pillows, jackets, duvets, etc.). The pad­ding or fillings can get out and cause
the fire.

CHILD SAFETY

• This machine is not intended for use by
young children or infirm persons with­out supervision.

• Children often do not recognise the
hazards associated with electrical appli­ances. Children should be supervised
to ensure that they do not play with the
appliance.

WARNING!

• Danger of suffocation! The
packaging components (e.g.
plastic film, polystyrene) can be
dangerous to children - Keep
them out of children’s reach.

• Keep all detergents in a safe place out
of children’s reach.

• Make sure that children or pets do not
climb inside the drum.

DISCARD THE APPLIANCE

• Disconnect the mains plug from the
mains socket.

• Cut off the mains cable and discard it.

• Discard the door catch. This prevents
children or pets to be closed in the ap­pliance. There is a risk of suffocation.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

1 2

3

4

5

12

11

10

9

Water container

1

Control panel

2

Drum light

3

Load door (reversible)

4

Primary filter

5

Sliding button to open the heat ex-

6

changer door
Airflow slots

7

Adjustable feet

8

Heat exchanger door

9

Heat exchanger filters cover

10

Lock knob

11

Rating plate

12

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7

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ACCESSORIES

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STACKING KIT

Product name: SKP11
Available from your authorized dealer.
Stacking kit can be used only with the
washing machines specified in the leaflet.
See leaflet attached.
Read carefully the instructions supplied
with the kit.

DRAINING KIT

Read carefully the instructions supplied
with the kit.

PEDESTAL WITH THE DRAWER

Product name: PDSTP10.
Available from your authorized dealer.
To put the appliance higher at the level
which helps to easy load and remove the
laundry .
The drawer can be use for laundry storage
e.g. : towels, cleaning products and more.
Read carefully the instructions supplied
with the accessory.

Product name: DK11.
Available from your authorized dealer
(can be attached to some types of the
tumble dryers)
Installation kit for through draining of the
condensed water into a basin, siphon,
gully, etc. After installation the water con­tainer is drained automatically. The water
container must stay in the appliance.
Installed hose must be on the height from
minimum of 50 cm to maximum of 1 m
from floor level. The hose cannot be in
loop. If possible decrease the length of
the hose.

DRYING RACK

Available from your authorized dealer
(can be attached to some types of the
tumble dryers)
Drying rack accessory let to dry safely in
the tumble dryer:

• sport shoes

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• wool

• soft toys

• lingerie
Read carefully the instructions supplied
with the kit.

CONTROL PANEL

1 10 122 4 5 6 7 8 9 113

Programme dial

1

Push button On/Off

2

Programme indicators

3

Push button Dry Plus

4

5

Push button Reverse Plus
Push button Anticrease

6

Push button Buzzer

7

Push button Time Drying

8

Push button Delay Start

9

Display

10

Push button Start/Pause

11

Indication lamps: drain the water

12

container,

clean the heat exchanger filters

DISPLAY

clean the primary filter,

Symbol Description

cooling cycle
phase indicator

crease guard cy­cle phase indica­tor

child lock activa­ted

delay start

cycle time indica­tion

-

time programme
selection (10 min.

- 2h.)

-

delay start selec­tion (30 min. ­20h.)

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Symbol Description

default dryness
level

moderate extra
dryness

maximum extra
dryness

reverse plus

m / m

anti-crease time

drying cycle
phase indicator

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BEFORE FIRST USE

Clean the tumble dryer drum with a moist
cloth or set a short programme (e.g. 30
minutes time programme) with the load of
moist cloths.

CAUTION!

The compressor and its system in the
tumble dryer is filled with the special

PROGRAMMES

Programmes

Extra Dry

Cupboard

2)

Dry

Iron Dry

Jeans

Bed Linen

Duvets

agent which is free from fluoro-chloro-hy­drocarbons. This system must stay tight.
The damage of the system can cause the
leakage and damage of the appliance.
At the beginning of drying cycle (3-5 min.)
there could be a slightly higher sound lev­el. It is because of start of the compressor
that is normal for compressor powered
appliances such: refrigerators, freezers .

Load

1)

Properties

Available
functions

Fabric

mark

Cottons

To dry cotton pieces of cloth-

8 kg

ing. Drying level: extra dry.

all except

Reverse Plus
and

Time

Drying

To dry cotton pieces of cloth-

8 kg

ing. Drying level: cupboard
dry.

To dry cotton pieces of cloth-

2)

8 kg

ing. Drying level: applicable
to iron.

To dry leisure clothing such
as jeans, sweat-shirts of dif-

8 kg

ferent material thicknesses
(e.g. at the neck, cuffs and
seams).

To dry bed linen such as: sin-

3 kg

gle and double sheet, pillow­case, bedspread.

all except

Reverse Plus

Time

and

Drying

all except

Reverse Plus
and

Time

Drying

all except

Reverse Plus

Time

and

Drying

all except

Reverse Plus

Time

and

Drying

all except

To dry single or double duvet

3 kg

and pillows (with feather,
down or synthetic fillings).

Reverse Plus

and

Anti-

crease and

Time Drying