Hints. Küppersbusch IKE150-2, IKE156-0, IKE 150-2

Hints

Saving Energy

Pay careful attention to where the cabinet is placed.

See the section ŇInstallationÓ. When installed correctly the cabinet will consume less energy.

Try to avoid keeping the doors open for long periods or opening the doors too frequently as warm air will enter the cabinet and cause the compressor to switch on unnecessarily often.

If the ambient temperature is high, the thermostat knob is on the coldest setting (higher numbers) and the appliance is fully loaded, the compressor may run continuously, causing frost or ice to form on the evaporator. If this happens, turn the knob to a warmer setting (lower numbers) to allow automatic defrosting and so a saving in electricity consumption.

Do not place warm foods inside the appliance.

Allow warm foods to cool first.

Keep the heat emitting condenser, the metall grille on the rear wall of your appliance, always clean.

Hints for refrigeration

Do not store warm food or evaporating liquids in the refrigerator and do cover or wrap up the food, particularly if it has a strong smell.

To help you use your refrigerator correctly, here are some useful hints:

Raw meat (beef, pork, lamb & poultry):

wrap in polythene bags and place on top of the salad compartment, this being the coldest spot in the refrigerator.

Meat can only be stored safely in this way for one or two days at the most.

Cooked food, cold cuts, jelly, etc.:

these should be well covered and can be stored on any of the glass shelves.

Fruit & vegetables:

these should be thoroughly cleaned and placed in the bottom drawer/s.

Butter & cheese:

these should be placed in special airtight containers or wrapped in aluminium foil or polythene bags to keep out as much air as possible.

Milk bottles:

these should have a top and should be stored in the bottle rack on the door.

Bananas, potatoes, onions and garlic, if not packed, must not be kept in the refrigerator.

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Maintenance

Unplug the appliance before carrying out any maintenance operation.

Warning

This appliance contains hydrocarbons in its cooling unit maintenance and recharging must therefore only be carried out by authorised technicians.

Defrosting

Bleeding part of the moisture of cooling chamber in form of frost and ice goes with the operation of the refrigerator.

Thick frost and ice has an insulating effect, so it reduces cooling efficiency as the temperature increases, it needs more energy, at a certain thickness it does not allow the door of the frozen food compartment to open, possibly the door can be broken.

At this type of appliance defrosting fresh food compartment is automatic without any external intervention.

The thermostatic control interrupts the operation of compressor at regular intervals for more or less time - during this cooling is interrupted temperature of the fresh food compartment increases and defrosting occurs. After defrosting the thermostatic control restarts operation of the system.

Melting water flows through defrost water outlet into the evaporative tray maintained on the top of compressor and evaporates due to warmth of it.

Check and clean the outlet of melting water coming during defrosting regularly.

If it is clogged the melting water gathered can cause earlier failure as it can go to the insulating of the appliance.

Clean the melting water outlet with the supplied pipe scraper that can be seen in the figure. The pipe scraper has to be stored in the outlet.

Occasionally check defrost water outlet not to be clogged up.

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