The price and the delivery service from Media Markt left nothing to be desired, the unit has two flights of stairs until it reaches its intended installation site, unpack, install the water filter and connect the water supply to the prepared connection.
Plug in and the unit started with the default factory settings with his work. Immediately began the ice production and after about four hours the first ice cubes dropped into the reservoir.
The individual temperature values for various cold zones and the various Zustzfunktionen are very easy to adjust, the display is a good size and well arranged.
The interior can accommodate without end and also the freezer is my standards more than adequate. Both inside and he makes a very sophisticated look and also sets it apart from its competitors. Only the LED interior lighting creates a true "Whow effect" and provides, if he is not overloaded, for good clarity.
The background noise is actually pleasantly quiet in my opinion and the occasional rumble when falling the frozen cubes in the freezer during the ice production, you will surely get used. The other knock and Schabgeräusche that he occasionally gives of itself, are unfamiliar, but hopefully also normal, as it will suggest the manual anyway.
In his outward appearance he is now undoubtedly the star in our kitchen, because in Design Panasonic has once again done a great job! The proportions and the missing handles make it appear visually less deep. That one by the hidden handholds ever to pinch your fingers, should be read as often, I can not confirm until now (yet). One must also not take everything so seriously, what is being written on the net.
Now for the less good things:
The rather over-priced water filter to be replaced every 6 months, clouds the overall positive impression. Let's hope that there will be increasingly more affordable imitation products for the expensive original filter. I myself will probably resort to an external filter that only a fraction of the cost and is easily installed in the supply line.
The absulute flop: energy consumption!
Once again has lied grossly in energy consumption!
The specified value of 346 kWh / year with the normal settings do not reach far and when I read that the Eco setting the freezer only - reached 17 °, I wonder, to whom use what. Maybe the A ++ values are perhaps achieved with the most economical settings, ie in Eco mode and without the additional functions such as making ice, vitamin Safe and Hygiene Active. That in Eco mode but the freezer should be operated only without goods, because the required - 18 ° can not be reached, which is obviously complete nonsense, because who wants the money for half a side-by-side in the who are home!
I have the device operated from the outset on an energy meter and so I have now after three weeks following consumption survey:
The measured consumption during the last 22 days was 44.5 kWh. (Settings: Fridge 7 °, -19 ° Freezer, vitamin Safe On to 5 °). Thus I come extrapolated to annual 738 kWh (!!!) And even in winter, and without appreciable ice removal!
The current-Mafia may look forward ...
