Panasonic NR-BC572VSAE User manual

Operating Instructions
Refrigerator-Freezer
(Household use)
Model No.
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Please read these instructions carefully and follow safety precautions before using this product.
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NR-BC572VSAE
Panasonic Marketing Middle East & Africa FZE
Website : www.panasonic.com
0002-1761

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Index
BEFORE USING THE APPLIANCE ..................................................................... 3
General warnings .........................................................................................................3
Old and out-of-order fridges .........................................................................................5
Safety warnings ............................................................................................................5
Installing and operating your fridge ..............................................................................6
Before Using your Fridge ..............................................................................................7
THE VARIOUS FUNCTION AND POSSIBILITIES ............................................... 8
Information about New Generation Cooling Technology ..............................................8
Thermostat Setting .......................................................................................................9
Warnings about Temperature Adjustments ...................................................................9
Accessories ................................................................................................................10
Icematic ................................................................................................................................10
Chiller Shelf ..........................................................................................................................11
Fresh dial .............................................................................................................................11
Adjustable door shelf ..........................................................................................................11
Adjustable glass shelf ..........................................................................................................12
Maxi-fresh preserver ............................................................................................................12
ARRANGING FOOD IN THE APPLIANCE ........................................................ 13
Refrigerator Compartment ..........................................................................................13
Freezer Compartment ................................................................................................14
CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE ..................................................................... 15
TRANSPORTATION AND CHANGING OF INSTALLATION POSITION ........... 17
Repositioning the Door ...............................................................................................17
BEFORE CALLING YOUR AFTER SALES SERVICE....................................... 17
Tips for saving energy ................................................................................................19
THE PARTS OF THE APPLIANCE AND THE COMPARTMENTS .................... 20

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PART - 1. BEFORE USING THE APPLIANCE
General warnings
WARNING: Keep ventilation openings, in the appliance enclosure
or in the built-in structure, clear of obstruction.
WARNING: Do not use mechanical devices or other means to
accelerate the defrosting process, other than those recommended
by the manufacturer.
WARNING: Do not use electrical appliances inside the food
storage compartments of the appliance, unless they are of the
type recommended by the manufacturer.
WARNING: Do not damage the refrigerant circuit.
WARNING: To avoid a hazard due to the instability of the
appliance, it must be fixed in accordance with the instructions.
WARNING: When positioning the appliance, ensure the supply
cord is not trapped or damaged.
WARNING: Do not locate multiple portable socket-outlets or
portable power supplies at the rear of the appliance
SYMBOL ISO 7010 W021
Warning: Risk of fire / flammable materials
•If your appliance uses R600a as a refrigerant – you can
learn this information from the label on the cooler- you should
be careful during shipment and installation to prevent your
appliance’s cooler elements from being damaged. Although
R600a is an environmentally friendly and natural gas. As it is
explosive, in the event of a leak due to damage to the cooler
elements, move your fridge from open flame or heat sources
and ventilate the room where the appliance is located for a
few minutes.
•While carrying and positioning the fridge, do not damage the
cooler gas circuit.

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•Do not store explosive substances such as aerosol cans with
a flammable propellant in this appliance.
•This appliance is intended to be used in household and similar
applications such as;
- staff kitchen areas in shops, offices and other working en-
vironments
- farm houses and by clients in hotels, motels and other resi-
dential type environments
- bed and breakfast type environments;
- catering and similar non-retail applications
•If the socket does not match the refrigerator plug, it must be
replaced by the manufacturer, its service agent or similarly
qualified persons in order to avoid a hazard.
•A specially grounded plug has been connected to the power
cable of your refrigerator. This plug should be used with a
specially grounded socket of 16 amperes. If there is no such
socket in your house, please have it installed by an authorized
electrician.
•This appliance can be used by children aged from 8 years
and above and persons with reduced physical, sensory or
mental capabilities or lack of experience and knowledge if
they have been given supervision or instruction concerning
use of the appliance in a safe way and understand the hazard
involved. Children shall not play with the appliance. Cleaning
and user maintenance, shall not be made by children without
supervision.
•If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the
manufacturer, its service agent or similar qualified persons
in order to avoid a hazard.
•This appliance is not intended for use at altitudes exceeding
2000 m.

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Old and out-of-order fridges
• If your old fridge has a lock, break or remove the lock before discarding it, because
children may get trapped inside it and may cause an accident.
• Old fridges and freezers contain isolation material and refrigerant with CFC. Therefore,
take care not to harm environment when you are discarding your old fridges.
Disposal of your old appliance
This symbol on the product or package implies that the product should not be
treated as domestic waste. Instead, it should be delivered to applicable waste
collection places recycling electrical and electronic equipment. You will contrib-
ute to avoid potential negative results regarding environment and human health,
which will arise due to wrong waste procedure for the product by ensuring that this
product is annihilated properly. Recycling materials will help natural resources be preserved.
For more detailed information regarding recycling of this product, please contact local mu-
nicipality, domestic waste annihilation service or the shop you have purchased the product.
Please ask your municipal authority about the disposal of the WEEE for the reuse, recycle
and recovery purposes.
Notes:
• Please read the instruction manual carefully before installing and using your appliance.
We are not responsible for the damage occurred due to misuse.
• Follow all instructions on your appliance and instruction manual, and keep this manual
in a safe place to resolve the problems that may occur in the future.
• This appliance is produced to be used in homes and it can only be used in domestic
environments and for the specified purposes. It is not suitable for commercial or common
use. Such use will cause the guarantee of the appliance to be cancelled and our company
will not be responsible for the losses to be occurred.
• This appliance is produced to be used in houses and it is only suitable for cooling / storing
foods. It is not suitable for commercial or common use and/or for storing substances
except for food. Our company is not responsible for the losses to be occurred in the
contrary case.
Safety warnings
• Do not use multiple receptacles or extension cord.
• Do not plug in damaged, torn or old plugs.
• Do not pull, bend or damage the cord.
• This appliance is designed for use by adults, do not allow children to
play with the appliance or let them hang off the door.
• Do not plug-in or out the plug from the receptacle with wet hands to
prevent electrocution!

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• Do not place glass bottles or beverage cans in the freezer department. Bottles or cans
may explode.
• Do not place explosive or flammable material in your fridge for your
safety. Place drinks with higher alcohol amount vertically and by closing
their necks tightly in the fridge department.
• When taking ice made in the freezer department, do not touch it, ice may
cause ice burns and/or cuts.
• Do not touch frozen goods with wet hands! Do not eat ice-cream and ice
cubes immediately after you have taken them out of the freezer department!
• Do not re-freeze frozen goods after they have melted. This may cause health issues
like food poisoning.
• Do not cover the body or top of fridge with lace. This affects the performance of your fridge.
• Fix the accessories in the fridge during transportation to prevent damage to accessories.
•Do not use plug adapter.
Installing and operating your fridge
Before starting to use your fridge, you should pay attention to the following points:
• Operating voltage for your fridge is 220-240 V at 50Hz.
• We do not take the responsibility of the damages that occur due to ungrounded usage.
• Place your fridge in a place that it would not be exposed to direct sunlight.
• Your appliance should be at least 50 cm away from stoves, Gas ovens and heater cores,
and should be at least 5 cm away from electrical ovens.
• Your fridge should never be used outdoors or left under the rain.
• When your fridge is placed next to a deep freezer, there should be at least
2 cm between them to prevent humidity on the outer surface.
• Do not place anything on your fridge, and install your fridge in a suitable
place so that at least 15 cm is available on the upper side.
• The adjustable front legs should be adjusted to make sure your appliance
is level and stable. You can adjust the legs by turning them clockwise (or in the opposite
direction). This should be done before placing food in the fridge.
• Before using your fridge, wipe all parts back with warm water added with a tea spoonful
of sodium bicarbonate, and then rinse with clean water and dry. Place all parts after
cleaning.
If your refrigerator has a fan condenser:
The condenser of your fridge is placed at the bottom of cabinet. As a result of that, details
that arranges the distance between the refrigerator and the back wall at where you place the
fridge, exist at the cover of the bottom of cabinet. You can move the fridge towards the back
wall until that point.
Plastic for distance setting

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If your fridge doesn’t have a fan condenser, in other words, back side of your fridge
is like below:
• Install the plastic distance guide (the part with black vanes
at the rear) by turning it 90° as shown in the figure to
prevent the condenser from touching the wall.
• Refrigerator should be placed against a wall with a free
distance not exceeding 75 mm.
Before Using your Fridge
• When it is operated for the first time or after transportation, keep your
fridge in the upright position for 3 hours and plug it on to allow efficient
operation. Otherwise, you may damage the compressor.
• Your fridge may have a smell when it is operated for the first time; the smell will fade
away when your fridge starts to cool.

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PART - 2. THE VARIOUS FUNCTION AND POSSIBILITIES
Information about New Generation Cooling Technology
Fridges with new generation cooling technology
have a different working system than static fridges.
In normal fridges, humid air that enters into fridge
and the water vapor that comes out from the foods,
accumulates frost formation in freezer compart-
ment. In order to melt this frost, in other words
defrost, the fridge has to be stopped. During the
stopping period, to keep the foods cold, user has
to extract the food to outside of fridge and user
has to clear the ice during this period.
In the fridges with new generation cooling tech-
nology, situation in the freezer compartment is
completely different. With the aid of fan, cold and
dry air is blown out through many points into the
freezer compartment. As a result of the homoge-
nously blown cold air, even in the spaces between
shelves, foods are frozen equally and correctly.
On the other hand there will be no frost formation.
In the refrigerator compartment, there will be
nearly same configuration with freezer compart-
ment. Air, that is emitted with the fan, located at
the top of refrigerator compartment, is cooled while
passing through the gap behind the air duct. At the
same time, air is blown out through the holes on
the air duct so that cooling process is successfully
completed in the refrigerator compartment. Holes
on the air duct are designed such that the air distri-
bution becomes homogenous in this compartment.
As there is no air passage between freezer and
refrigerator compartment, there will be no odor
mixing.
As a result of these, your fridge with new genera-
tion cooling technology, gives you, ease of use
beside the huge volume and esthetic appearance.

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Thermostat Setting
Freezer and refrigerator thermostat automatically regulates the inside temperature of the
compartments. By rotating the knob from position 1 to 5, colder temperatures can be obtained.
In cold seasons, you can set lower positions in order to decrease the energy consumption.
Thermostat level;
1 – 2 : For short-term storage of food in the freezer compartment, you can set the knob
between minimum and medium position.
3 – 4 : For long-term storage of food in the freezer compartment, you can set knob
medium position.
5 – MAX : For freezing the fresh food. Th appliance will work longer. After you get the cold
condition you must position to its original position.
Warnings about Temperature
Adjustments
• Temperature adjustments should be
made according to the frequency of
door openings and the quantity of
food kept inside the fridge.
• This fridge is designed to work in all
ambient temperature. In the ambi-
ent temperatures colder than -5 oC,
preserving food in the refrigerator
compartment isn’t suggested be-
cause the foods that you put into
refrigerator compartment, will have
a temperature close to ambient
temperature. Consequently, they will
freeze. You can keep your foods until
-5 oC in refrigerator compartments.
With the aid of special algorithm that
is designed by engineers, foods can
be preserved in the freezer compart-
ment, colder than -5 oC ambient
temperature.

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Accessories
Icematic
• Take out the ice making tray
• Fill the water in level of line.
• Place the ice making tray in its original
position
• When ice cubes are formed, twist the lever
to drop off ice cubes into the icebox.
Note:
• Do not fill the icebox with water in order to make ice. It can be broken
• The movement of the ice maker may be difficult while the refrigerator is running. In such
a case should be cleaned by removing the glass shelves.
Removing the Ice maker
• Take out of the freezer glass shelves
• Remove the icemaker by dragging left or
right on the shelf.
You can remove the icemaker to use a larger volume of the freezer compartment.
• Do not pass to another adjustment before completing an adjustment.
• Your fridge should be operated up to 24 hours according to the ambient temperature
without interruption after being plugged in to be completely cooled. Do not open doors
of your fridge frequently and do not place much food inside it in this period.
• If the unit is switched off or unplugged, you must allow at least 5 minutes before restart-
ing or re-plugged the unit in order not to damage the compressor.
• Your fridge is designed to operate in the ambient temperature intervals stated in the
standards, according to the climate class stated in
the information label. We do not recommend operat-
ing your fridge out of stated temperatures value limits
in terms of cooling effectiveness.
• This appliance is designed for use at an ambient
temperature within the 10°C - 43°C range.
Note:
This appliance is designed to work at 43 oC ambient temperature with no problem. Below -5
oC ambient temperature, do not use refrigerator compartment as the foods that you put into
there will freeze. You can continue using freezer compartment.
(Making ice cubes)
Climate class Ambient (oC)
T16 to 43 (oC)
ST 16 to 38 (oC)
N16 to 32 (oC)
SN 10 to 32 (oC)