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WATER SOFTENER START=UP
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SANITIZING THE WATER SOFTENER
1 = Care is taken at the factory to keep your water
softener clean and sanitary_ Materials used to
make the softener will not infect or contaminate your
water supply, and will not cause bacteria to form or
grow_ However, during shipping, storage, installing
and operating, bacteria could get into the water soft-
ener_ For' this reason, sanitizing as follows is
suggested '_when installing
1. Use a paii or hose to fill the salt storage tank with 3
gallons of water..
2. Pour about 3/4 ounce of common 525% house-
hold bleach (Clorox, Linco, Bo Peep, White Sail,
Eagle, etc.) into the brinew#!l, FIG.. 17.
ADD WATER AND FILL STORAGE
TANK WITH SALT
8rinewell
Cover
Water, about
3 gallons ..,......
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3. Look at the faceplate and press the HOLD-RE-
CHARGE NOW button @, holding in until RCHG
begins to flash in the faceplate display, starting a
recharge. This first recharge, or regeneration '-'_,does
several things.
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a. It draws the bleach into and through the water
softener, to sanitize it.
b. It fills the salt tank to the needed water level..
c. It gets all the air out of the resin tank.
d. It makes the resin bed (page 19) ready for serviceo
The regeneration takes about 2 hours. After that, soft
water goes into the house pipes. Then you can drain
hard water from the water heater'. Open a hot water
faucet until the water runs cold, then close faucet.
The tank refills with soft water. (It will take a few days
before your hot water is fully soft if you do not drain
the heater,)
CO Recommended by the Water Quality Association. On some water' supplies, the water softener may need
periodic disinfecting_
(_ RECHARGE and REGENERATION means the same.
SET THE TIMER
2, After the transformer is plugged into the electri-
cal outlet (step 14, pg. 15), 12:00 AM, SUn-
day began to flash in the time display. Set the time of
day and present day of week as follow&
A. SET TIME OF DAY
1. Press the PRESENT TIME AND DAY button []
once_ The hour display continues to flash.
2. Press the SET/CLEAR button [] until the present
hour of the day shows in the display. Be sure AM
for morning hours, or PM for afternoon and even-
ing hours show&
NOTE: Press SET/CLEAR and quickly release to
move the hour display ahead 1 at a time to the correct
hour. Or, hold the SET/CLEAR button to move the
display ahead 2 hours each second, to the correct
hour°
3. Press button [] once to steady the hour' display,
and minutes begin to flash. Repeat step A2 to set
the correct minute&
4. Press button [] again to steady the minute display
(day will begin flashing). Figure 19 shows the
timer set at 3:30 PM See step B to set the present
day_
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