The special innovation in the Perfect Care series and thus also in this device is that you have not set a temperature and steam power. Philips calls this OptimalTemp and explains that the system works with a Smart Control Processor and a Cyclonic Steam Chamber. Sounds very professional and let all the times in German: at a lower temperature a constant high steam pressure is created, which materials are easier to iron and you no longer have to be careful how sensitive the material is currently being processed. So if you have different delicate fabrics, no longer needs to sort out what part you first ironed with low temperature before being switched later to smooth out the rest of you. In addition, there is always full steam is available, which is not the case with another iron, because the steam can usually only be produced with the highest temperature.
Even drops of water that sometimes I got a normal steam iron for ironing the laundry and had to iron intensely dry are past. When Silence only a small amount of water is transported into the boiler and this then expelled as steam with 6 bar. A constant steam output of up to 120 g / min and 290 g of steam makes ironing quick and easy. My favorable Perfect Care has a little less pressure (5 bar), a striking difference I can therefore not be determined but. Even the vertical ironing (for example a crumpled jacket) goes perfectly on both devices.
The advantages of Perfect Care Silence lie in three points:
On the one hand there's the ECO mode. A short pressing on the power button, the station as the PC is running in normal mode as well. You keep your finger for about 2 seconds on the button, these lights no longer blue but green: The station is located in the energy-saving Eco-mode. At first I was a bit skeptical because, because in this mode, you hardly notice that it evaporated. Still, I could see that with lighter materials is perfectly adequate as shirts of steam. Only in jeans, the result was not ideal, here I then switched back to the normal mode, as I have the station switched off briefly and then turned on again.
Furthermore the PCS over a AutoOff mode: To save power, the station will automatically turn off if it was not used for 10 minutes and the power button blinks. If you want to continue ironing, just press the button and the steam generator is heating up again. This feature I find quite handy, because every now and then you will after all distracted times (postman rings, want the children what a ') and does not have to remember to turn off the station.
The third advantage can be seen already in the name: PC SILENCE! The station is actually significantly quieter than their 'little' sister during heating. This buzzing shortly times quite loud when heated in the PCS can be heard at best a 'purring'. I always Bügle in television and in my station sometimes escape me because two or three sets during the heating phase in the PCS disturbs nothing the acoustic reception.
Justify these three advantages now the significantly higher price? Honestly, not in my eyes. Even my PerfectCare I found very expensive, but I will not really miss and am glad that I have to decide at that time for that because after half a year I have to say it is worth the money. But 350 Euro for minimum benefits, without which one can live very well? No not true. Although the Silence is also handsome, but I'm not a design freak, such a device must have a practical use and are not intended as an ornament.
Because all the functionality but absolutely true in everything, ironing almost (unfortunately only almost * g *) goes by itself and I find very useful ECO mode, I just pull this one star for the lowest rate and recommend the PHILIPS GC 9540/02 PerfectCare SILENCE generator iron Ironing plagued all men and women on.