6. Safety instructions
Read the operating instructions and safety information carefully. If you do not follow the safety
instructions and information on proper handling in these operating instructions, we will assume
no liability for any resulting personal injury or damage to property. Such cases will invalidate the
warranty/guarantee.
a) Special instructions
• This appliance may be used by children over 8 years of age and
people with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities if they
have been given supervision or instruction concerning the safe use of
the appliance and understand the potential hazards.
• Children must always be supervised by an adult to ensure that they
do not play with the appliance.
• Children must not clean or service the appliance without appropriate
supervision.
b) General information
• Do not leave packaging material lying around carelessly. It may become a dangerous plaything for
children.
• Protect the product from extreme temperatures, direct sunlight, strong jolts, flammable gases, vapours
and solvents.
• Never expose the product to mechanical stress.
• If it is no longer possible to operate the product safely, take it out of operation and protect it from any
accidental use. Safe operation can no longer be guaranteed if the product:
- is visibly damaged,
- is no longer working properly,
- has been stored for extended periods in poor ambient conditions or
- has been subjected to any serious transport-related stresses.
• Please handle the product carefully. Jolts, impacts or a fall even from a low height may damage the product.
• Always observe the safety instructions and operating instructions of any other devices which are
connected to the product.
• The product complies with protection class IPX8/IPX4 (protection class of the pump = IPX8, protection
class of the mains plug = IPX4).
• This product is built according to protection class I. Only a proper grounded mains socket of the public
supply network may be used as the voltage source (for the operating voltage of the pump, see chapter
"Technical Data" and inscription on the type plate).
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