AEG-Electrolux TKGL5E100 User Manual

user manual

Condenser Dryer

TKGL 5E 100

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Contents
Operating Instructions 5

Important safety information 5
Product description 8
Control panel 9
Before first use 10
Sorting and preparing laundry 10
Programme overview 12
Daily use 17
Care and cleaning 24
What to do if ... 30
Machine settings 33
Technical data 35
Consumption values 36
Hints for test institutes 36
Installation 37
Environment 42
Guarantee conditions 43

Service 45

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Operating Instructions

Important 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.

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, sensory 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 pets do not climb into 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.

• In order to avoid danger of fires caused by excessive drying, do not use appliance
to dry the following items: Cushions, quilts and the like (these items accumulate
heat).

• Items such as foam rubber (latex foam), shower caps, waterproof textiles, rubber
backed articles and clothes or pillows fitted with foam rubber pads should not be
dried in the tumble dryer.

• Always unplug the appliance after use, clean 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.

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• 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 substance 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 to be loaded into appliance

Never stop a tumble dry before the end of the drying cycle unless all items
are quickly removed and spread out so that the heat is dissipated. Risk of
fire!

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

Installation

• This appliance is heavy. Care should be taken when moving it.

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

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

• 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.

• Any electrical work required to install this appliance should be carried out by a
qualified electrician or competent person.

• Care must be taken to ensure that the appliance does not stand on the electrical
supply cable.

• If the machine is situated on a carpeted floor, please adjust the feet in order to
allow air to circulate freely.

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• After having installed the appliance, check that it is not pressing or standing on
its electrical supply cable.

• If the tumble dryer is placed on top of a washing machine, it is compulsory to use
the stacking kit (optional accessory).

Use

• This appliance is designed for domestic use. It must not be used for purposes
other than those for which it was designed.

• Only wash fabrics which are designed to be machine dried. Follow the instructions
on each garment label.

• Do not dry unwashed items in the tumble dryer.

• Do not overload the appliance. See the relevant section in the user manual.

• Clothes which are dripping wet should not be placed in the 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 machine.

• Never pull the power supply cable to remove the plug from the socket; always
take hold of the plug itself.

• Never 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 softeners, or similar products should be used as specified by the fabric
softener instructions.

• Caution - hot surface : Do not touch the door light cover surface when the light
is switched on.

1)

Child safety

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

• Children should be supervised to ensure that they do not play with the appliance.

• The packaging components (e.g. plastic film, polystyrene) can be dangerous to
children - danger of suffocation! 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 into the drum.

1) Only dryers equipped with internal drum light.

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Product description

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3

6

7

9

12

1 Control panel
2 Drawer with condensed water container
3 Lamp for inside light
4 Fine strainer (lint filter)
5 Large mesh filter (lint filter)
6 Micro-fine filter (lint filter)
7 Rating plate
8 Loading door (reversible)

9 Base door upstream of heat exchanger
10 Button for opening door in plinth
11 Air slots

1

4

5

8

10

11

12 Screwed feet (with height adjustment)

Control panel

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Aus

Beleuchtung / Eclairage

Wollpflege / Laine

Leichtbügeln Plus /
Facile à repasser

Sport

Jeans

Bettwäsche /Draps

Auffrischen /Rafraîchir

Zeitprogramm / Minuterie

Arrêt

Baumwolle / Coton

Extratrocken / Três Sec

Mischgewebe/Synthetiques

Schranktrocken /

Prêt à Ranger

Bügeltrocken /

Prêt à Repasser

Extratrocken /

Três Sec

Schranktrocken /

Prêt à Ranger

Bügeltrocken /

Prêt à Repasser

Schon
Délicat

Sensitiv
Sensible

Knitterschutz
Plus
Anti ­Froissage

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1 Programme knob and ON/OFF (Aus) switch
2 Function buttons
3 START PAUSE (Start/Pause) button
4

DELAY START (Zeitvorwahl) button

5 Display
6 Function status led

What is shown in the display

1

Zeitvorwahl
Départ Différé

Signal
Alarme

Laufzeit

Temps Restant

Zeitwahl
Minuterie

2 3

45

Start / Pause
Départ / Pause

6

5

34

1 time to end / error message

2

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2 warnings
3 long anti-crease icon
4 cycle phase status
5 delay time option icon
6 child lock icon

Before first use

In order to remove any residues which may have been produced during production,
wipe the dryer drum with a damp cloth or carry out a brief drying cycle (30 MIN) with
damp cloths in the machine.

Sorting and preparing laundry

Sorting laundry

• Sort by fabric type:
– Cotton/linen for programmes in COTTONS (Baumwolle) programme group.
– Mixtures and synthetics for programmes in SYNTHETICS (Mischgewebe) pro-

gramme group.

• Sorting by care label. The care labels mean:

Drying in the tum­ble dryer possible

in principle

Do not place in the appliance any wet laundry which is not specified on the
care label as being suitable for tumble-drying.
This appliance can be used for all wet laundry items which are labelled as
suitable for tumble-drying.

• Do not dry new, coloured textiles together with light-coloured laundry items. Tex­tile colours may bleed.

Dry at normal

temperature

Dry at reduced

temperature

(press DELICATE

(Schon) button!)

Drying in the tum­ble dryer not pos-

sible

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• Do not dry cotton jersey and knitwear with the EXTRA programme. Items may
shrink!

• Do not dry wool in the dryer. May become entangled! After air-drying, wool may
be dried with the WOOL CARE (Wollpflege) programme.

Preparing laundry

• To avoid laundry becoming tangled: close zips, button up duvet covers and tie
loose ties or ribbons (e.g. of aprons).

• Empty pockets. Remove metal items (paper clips, safety pins, etc).

• Turn items with double-layered fabrics inside out (e.g. with cotton-lined anoraks,
the cotton layer should be outermost). These fabrics will then dry better.

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Programme overview

Additional func-

tions

1)

1)

Programmes

EXTRA
(Extratro
cken)

CUP­BOARD
(Schrank
trocken)

IRON

COTTONS (Baumwolle)

(Bugeltro
cken)

DELICATE(Schon)

max. load (weight when dry)

7

kg

7

kg

7

kg

SENSITIVE(Sensitiv)

• • • • - •

• • • • - •

• • • • - •

Application/properties

TIME (Zeitwahl)

BUZZER (Signal)

Care

mark

DELAY START (Zeitvorwahl)

LONG ANTI-CREASE (Knitterschutz Plus)

Thorough drying of thick or
multi- layered fabrics, e.g. terry
towelling items, bathrobes.

Thorough drying of fabrics of
even thicknesses, e.g. terry
towelling items, knitwear, tow­els.

For normal thickness cotton or
linen laundry, e.g. bedding, ta­ble linen.

Additional func-

tions

1)

1)

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Programmes

EXTRA
(Extratro
cken)

CUP­BOARD
(Schrank
trocken)

IRON
(Bugeltro
cken)

DELICATE(Schon)

max. load (weight when dry)

3

kg

3

kg

3

kg

SENSITIVE(Sensitiv)

• • • • - •

• • • • - •

• • • • - •

Application/properties

TIME (Zeitwahl)

BUZZER (Signal)

Care

mark

DELAY START (Zeitvorwahl)

LONG ANTI-CREASE (Knitterschutz Plus)

Thorough drying of thick or

)

multi-layered fabrics, e.g. pull­overs, bedding, table linen.

For thin fabrics which are not
ironed, e.g. easy care shirts,

2)

table linen, baby clothes,
socks, lingerie with bones or
wires.

)

For thin fabrics which are also
to be ironed, e.g. knitwear,
shirts.

SYNTHETICS (Mischgewebe) (Mischgewebe)

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Additional func-

tions

1)

1)

TIME
(Zeit­wahl)

FRESHE
N UP
(Auffri­schen)

TIME (Zeitwahl) (Zeitwahl)

S

BED

PE

LINEN

CI

(Bettwa-

AL

sche)

JEANS

Programmes

DELICATE(Schon)

max. load (weight when dry)

7

kg

1

kg

3

kg

7

kg

SENSITIVE(Sensitiv)

• - • • • •

• - • • • •

• - • • - •

• • • • - •

Application/properties

TIME (Zeitwahl)

BUZZER (Signal)

Care

mark

DELAY START (Zeitvorwahl)

LONG ANTI-CREASE (Knitterschutz Plus)

For further drying of individual
items of laundry or for small
volumes of less than 1kg.

For refreshing or gently clean­ing textiles with commercially
available dry cleaning prod­ucts.

Bed linen (single and double
sheet, pillowcase, bedspread,
duvet cover).

For leisure clothing, such as
jeans, sweat-shirts, etc., of dif­ferent material thicknesses
(e.g. at the neck, cuffs and
seams).

Additional func-

tions

1)

1)

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Programmes

SPORTS
LIGHT
(Beleuch
tung)
(Sport)

EASY
IRON
PLUS
(Leichtbu
geln
Plus)

DELICATE(Schon)

max. load (weight when dry)

2

A - • • - •

kg

1
kg
(or

A - • • - •

5

shir

ts)

BUZZER (Signal)

SENSITIVE(Sensitiv)

LONG ANTI-CREASE (Knitterschutz Plus)

Application/properties

TIME (Zeitwahl)

DELAY START (Zeitvorwahl)

For sportswear, thin fabrics,
polyester, which are not
ironed.

Special program with anti­crease mechanism for easy
care fabrics such shirts and
blouses; for minimum ironing
effort. The results depends on
the type of fabric and its finish.
Place fabrics in the dryer
straight after spinning; once
dried, immediately remove
fabrics and place on a clothes
hanger.

Care

mark

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Additional func-

tions

1)

1)

Application/properties

Programmes

TIME (Zeitwahl)

BUZZER (Signal)

SENSITIVE(Sensitiv)

max. load (weight when dry)

DELICATE(Schon)

DELAY START (Zeitvorwahl)

LONG ANTI-CREASE (Knitterschutz Plus)

Special programme for briefly
treating woollens with warm

WOOL
CARE
(Wollp­flege)

1

A - • • - -

kg

air, after they have been dried
naturally, worn or stored for
long periods. Wool fibres
stand up and the wool be­comes soft and cosy. Rec-
ommendation: Remove fab­rics immediately after drying.

1) DELICATE (Schon) and SENSITIVE cannot be selected together

2) select DELICATE (Schon) (Schon)

A - Auto - function selected automatically.

Care

mark