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A star or a sun for rinse aid, and an arrow into a container for salt.
Also known as: Star symbol on a dishwasher, Salt light, Sun symbol on a dishwasher
Two lamps on a dishwasher for two consumables that do unrelated jobs. Salt regenerates the water softener and rinse aid stops droplets drying as marks — and putting the wrong one in the wrong reservoir is a common and damaging mistake.
Two indicators on a dishwasher: a star or radiating sun for rinse aid, and a downward arrow into a container, or a lattice of dots, for dishwasher salt.
What a given programme actually does is in the appliance's own instructions. The symbol names the function; the manufacturer decides how it behaves.
Contexts: Electrical equipment
They do unrelated jobs. Salt regenerates the built-in water softener and never touches the dishes; rinse aid is a surfactant that makes water sheet off rather than bead, so it dries without spots.
The reservoirs are separate and the products are not interchangeable. Table salt in the softener reservoir damages it, and rinse aid in the salt reservoir is a service call.
Two lamps, two reservoirs, two products that must not be swapped.
A small eight-pointed star or a circle with short radiating lines, and separately a downward arrow entering an open-topped container outline.