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on the wrong days and at the wrong time.,
If the softener was in a regeneration when power
went off, the valve will return to service position
without finishing the regeneration cycle. If your
water tastes salty,
, o.use RECHARGE NOW (see page 18) to start
another regeneration, or,, ,.
..o_,open 1 or more soft water faucets and allow to
run until the salt taste is gone_
SOFT WATER SERVICE, AND RECHARGE, OR REGENERATION
SERVICE
When the softener is giving you soft water, it is called
"Service". During service, hard water comes from
the house main water pipe into the softener. Inside
the softener resin tank is a bed made up of
thousands of tiny, plastic resin beads (FIGo 22). As
hard water passes through the bed, each bead
attracts and holds the hardness minerals. This is
called ion-exchanging, It is much like a magnet at-
tracting and holding metals. Water without the hard-
ness minerals (soft water) flows out of the softener
and into the house soft water pipes,
After a period of time, the resin beads become coated
with hardness minerals and they have to be cleaned.
This cleaning is called recharge, or regeneration°
WATER FLOW THROUGH THE
SOFTENER IN SERVICE
Soft Water
OUT
Resin Tank ,---,.
Salt Storage _
Tank
Hard Water
_N
.-..-- Resin Bed
RECHARGE OR REGENERATION
Regeneration is started at about 2:00 a_m. (factory
setting) by the timer_ It takes place in 5 stages or
cycles° These are:
%
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FILL [_ BACKWASH
BRINING [_ FAST RINSE
BRINE RINSE
[] FILL: Salt, dissolved in water, is called brine,.
Brine is needed to clean the hardness minerals from
the resin beads° To make the brine, soft water flows
into the salt storage area during the fill cycle as
shown in FIG. 23.
The length of the fill cycle is t6 minutes, unless
another time is set when "Fine-Tuning", pages
25-27.
WATER FLOW THROUGH THE
SOFTENER IN FILL
Hard Water
IN
SoftWater
ti:==::=i_:ii=
:::i: i:::i
Salt
/ Storage Tank
(salt not shown)
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