Program The Timer - Kenmore 625.388400 Owner's Manual

C. PROGRAM THE TIMER
_r_SET WATER HARDNESS NUMBER
• Press the SELECT 1 button once to display 25
(flashing) and HARDNESS.
The grains per gallon (gpg) hard- _ -W
L- -I
ness of your water supply is on [--_ ] ,_,o,,_ss
your water analysis report. Be ]_ /
sure to enter water test results on | ! /
page A, for future reference. I--'- |
generation (see pages 2-4 and 2-5) at 2:00 AM, end-
ing no later than 4:00 AM. This is a good time in
most households because water is not being used
(see Automatic Bypass, page 2-6). If a different re-
charge time setting would be better for your house-
hold, do the following.
• Press the UP / DOWN buttons to set the desired
recharge starting hour. Be sure to observe the AM-
PM as you did when setting the present time of day.
If your water supply contains iron, compensate for
it by adding to the water hardness number. For ex-
ample, assume your water is 20 gpg hard and contains 2
ppm iron. Add 5 to the hardness number for each 1 ppm
of iron. In this example, you would use 30for your hard-
ness
ruLm_er.
20 gpg hardness
2 ppmironx 5 = 10 +10
(times) 30 HARDNESS NUMBER
• Press the UP / DOWN buttons to set your water
hardness number in the display. The DOWN button
moves the display to 1. The UP button moves the
display to the highest setting (see maximum setting
for your model in the specifications).
Note:
Between 1 and 25, each press of the UP / DOWN
button changes the display by 1. Between 25 and
the highest number, the display changes 5 at a
time... 25, 30, 35, etc. Holding the UP or DOWN but-
ton in changes the display twice each second.
_ISET RECHARGE (REGENERATION) TIME
• Press the SELECT 1 button to display 2:00 AM
(flashing) and RECHARGE TIME.
At the 2:00 AM recharge time -- C'UU
setting, the softener begins re- ,M_
Note:
Each press of the UP / DOWN buttons changes the
display one hour. Holding the buttons in changes
the display twice each second.
_]_ SET SALT TYPE (sodium chloride or potas-
sium chloride, see page 1-6):
• Press the SELECT 1 button to display nACl, the
default setting.
If you want to use potassium
chloride (KC1) instead of stan-
dard sodium chloride (NaC1)
water softener salt, be sure to set _,_.
KCI in the display using the UP _,%_,_
button. The KC1 setting adjusts -_
regeneration cycle times to com-
pensate for the variable dissolv-
ing rate of potassium chloride. ,2 .
r,a_r_at_.
--e-- I-II IL. I
7
5
4
r i- i
ixl_ I
• Press the SELECT button once again, to return
the present time, and RECHARGE TONIGHTin the
display.
t
" -s - _1' _1 _1
R_CIIaCRGE TONIGH
5
IF YOU NEED HELP PROGRAMMING THE TIMER, CALL TOLL FREE,
NUMBER 1-800-426-9345.
www.KenmoreWater.com
SEE PAGES 2-1, 2-2 AND 2-3 FOR OTHER FACE PLATE TIMER FEATURES.
1-4