Routine Maintenance - EcoWater ESD2750R25 Owner's Manual

Electronic demand water softener

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REFILLING WITH SALT

If the softener uses all the salt before more is added,

hard water will result. Remove the brine tank lid and

check the salt level frequently. Until you have estab-

lished a refilling routine, check the salt every 2 or 3

weeks. Be sure that the brinewell cover is on when

adding salt.

NOTE: In humid areas it is best to keep the salt level

less than half full and refill more often.

RECOMMENDED SALT: Cube, pellet, coarse solar,

etc., water softener salt is recommended. This type

of salt is high purity evaporated crystals, sometimes

formed and pressed into briquets. It has less than

1% insoluble (not dissolvable in water) impurities.

Clean, high grade rock salts are acceptable, but may

require frequent brine tank cleaning to remove the

"sludge" residue (insolubles) collecting at the bottom

of the tank.

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE: If you choose potassium

chloride (KCl) salt instead of standard sodium chlo-

ride (NaCl) water softener salt as a regenerant:

1) The hardness setting must be increased by 25%.

2) Place only one bag of potassium chloride (KCl) into

your water softener at a time. The salt storage

tank should never contain more than 60 pounds of

KCl.

SALT NOT RECOMMENDED: Rock salt high in

impurities, block, granulated, table, ice melting, or ice

cream making salts, etc., are not recommended.

SALT WITH IRON REMOVING ADDITIVE: Some

salts have an additive to help a water softener handle

iron in the water supply. Although this may help keep

the resin bed clean, it may also release corrosive

fumes that will weaken and shorten the life of some

EcoWater Systems softener electronic parts. Iron Out

salt is safe to use on two-tank models.

BREAKING A SALT BRIDGE

Sometimes a hard crust or salt "bridge" forms in the

brine tank. This is usually caused by high humidity or

the wrong kind of salt. When the salt bridges, an

empty space forms between the water and the salt.

Then salt will not dissolve in the water to make brine.

Without brine, the resin bed is not recharged and

hard water will result.

If the storage tank is full of salt, it is difficult to tell

whether there is a salt bridge. A bridge may be

underneath loose salt. The following is the best way

to check for a salt bridge:

Salt should be loose all the way to the bottom of the

tank. Hold a broom handle, or like tool, up to the

softener's brine tank, as shown in Figure 29. Make a

pencil mark on the handle 1" - 2" below the top of the

rim. Then, carefully push it straight down into the

salt. If a hard object is felt before the pencil mark is

even with the top, it is most likely a salt bridge.

Carefully push into the bridge in several places to

break it. Do not try to break the salt bridge by

pounding on the outside of the salt tank. You

may damage the tank.

Push tool into

salt bridge

to break

1" - 2"

Pencil

Mark

Broom

Handle