On 2011-06-15, Tim Watts wrote:

Are there any jumpers or programming steps to set it for your model I
wonder?

That controller sounds like mine, which means there are some hidden
programming steps availble via soem funky key presses that I'd have to look
up - mostly things like water hardness, beeper on/off. Don't remember any

Yes, mine has two settings (water hardness & extra drying) that you
activate by holding down one of the programme buttons & pressing the
power on, pressing the programme button to run through the option
numbers, and turning the power off to save. They still work the same
with the new module.


setting for machine type. Which makes me wonder if there just might be some
jumpers. I'm taking a wild guess - but it's because you said it fits a
variety of models. I suspect it thinks the buttons are actually other
functions for a different machine, which is giving you weird behaviour.

Yes, that's exactly right, as it turns out. After some run-around, I
finally got the "Model coding" sheet (PDF) from Bosch, which explains
the Vulcan nerve pinch sequences used to change the mapping between
appliance programmes and buttons. You hold down *four* programme
buttons and press the power on, then use one of the buttons to toggle
through 5 combinations of programmes, and press the power off to
save. Unfortunately one of those buttons is "extra" for my model and
ends up behind the panel itself rather than one of the external
pushers, so I'll have to take the front (or at least part of it) off,
recode the control module with the power connected, and then put the
panel back on.


Did it come with any paperwork - or are there any jumpers visible on the
module - or maybe a little rotary switch or a DIP switch bank?

There wasn't any relevant paperwork in the box, just a sheet (not
applicable to my case) about cutting and splicing some wires for some
other models.