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Clean Water Systems FLECK 7000 Installation & Start?Up Manual

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Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Start-Up Guide
Thank you for purchasing a Clean Water System! With proper installation and a little
routine maintenance your system will be providing filtered water for many years.
Your new system comes with a printed Fleck Service manual, which along with this
start-up guide will help guide you in the installation and start-up of your new system.
The Fleck service manual covers other types of systems as well such as water softeners
and filters, so there may be information in your Fleck service manual that does not
pertain to your system. Please review this start-up guide entirely before beginning to
install your system and follow the steps outlined for best results.
CARBON MEDIA CONTAINS DUST. USE PAPER MASK AND VENTILATE TO AVOID BREATHING DUST.
IMPORTANT: YOU MAY NOT NEED TO ADD ALL THE FILTER MEDIA YOU RECEIVED. THE FILTER TANK
SHOULD NOT BE FILLED MORE THAN 2/3 FULL.
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  • Page 1 Clean Water Made Easy www.cleanwaterstore.com Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Start-Up Guide Thank you for purchasing a Clean Water System! With proper installation and a little routine maintenance your system will be providing filtered water for many years. Your new system comes with a printed Fleck Service manual, which along with this start-up guide will help guide you in the installation and start-up of your new system.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    How Your Carbon Filter Works .......................... 5 Fig 1 - Carbon Filter Filter Tank Water Flow ..................6 Fig 2 - Typical Carbon Filter Fleck 7000 piping installation with ball valve and hose bib after the filter ..............................6 Fig 3 Fleck 7000 By-Pass and Pipe Connectors ................10 Troubleshooting the Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Filter ..................

  • Page 3: Packing List

    Packing List Carbon Filter 1.0 cubic foot size Quantity 1 Fleck 7000 Backwash Control Valve with Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1”or ¾”)* Quantity 1 10” x 44” filter tank with distributor tube Blue media funnel for adding the Carbon media 12lbs.

  • Page 4: Pre-Installation

    1. See typical installation (see Fig 2). The Carbon Filter filter is installed after the pressure tank. 2. Make sure to follow to connect the in pipe to the Fleck 7000 inlet and the outlet to the outlet (see Fig 2). As you face the Fleck 7000 control from the front, the water enters on the right and exits on the left.

  • Page 5: How Your Carbon Filter Works

    Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide 4. If you will be using copper piping, do not sweat the copper pipe directly on to the Fleck 7000 control valve. Avoid heating up the Fleck 7000 control valve plastic with the torch.

  • Page 6: Fig 1 - Carbon Filter Filter Tank Water Flow

    Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide Fig 1 - Carbon Filter Filter Tank Water Flow Fig 2 - Typical Carbon Filter Fleck 7000 piping installation with ball valve and hose bib after the filter Page 6 www.cleanwaterstore.com Rev 120215...
  • Page 7 Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide Page 7 www.cleanwaterstore.com Rev 120215...
  • Page 8 Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide Fig 3: Fleck 7000 from the rear showing the inlet and outlet end-connector fittings 1” or 1-1/4” NPT in Noryl plastic. Brass end-connectors are also available for connecting to copper tubing. Fig 4 Fleck 7000 side view Page 8 www.cleanwaterstore.com...
  • Page 9 Assembly and Installation Instructions 1. Unscrew by hand the entire Fleck 7000 control valve from top of tank if it was shipped screwed on. Place distributor tube in tank if not already inside tank. If not already done, make sure blue cap is on top of distributor tube, or wrap the top of distributor tube with electrical or duct tape.

  • Page 10: Fig 3 Fleck 7000 By-Pass And Pipe Connectors

    (#3). 11. Note that the Fleck 7000 is usually shipped in the bypass position. There is a bypass valve knob on both the inlet and the outlet (Fig 3 #1). You can easily tell if it is in bypass because the two holes on the bypass knob will be in the vertical position.
  • Page 11 It is OK to run the drain line up and over the Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter up to 4 feet above the top of the tank. If the drain line will be more than 20 feet, use larger diameter tubing such as ¾”...
  • Page 12 First open the Inlet Side of the bypass valve. Second slowly open the Outlet Side of the bypass until it is in the full service position. The Fleck 7000 bypass valve knobs are a little stiff, so you can use a screw driver placed in the holes to turn the knobs. Make sure you are turning the bypass valve knobs in the correct direction which is counter-clockwise as you face the bypass valve knobs.
  • Page 13 Guide There This is for Fleck 7000 backwash filters that have are equipped with the optional built-in flow sensor only. are two types of programming, standard USER PROGRAMMING, where you can set the time of day and gallons of water used and/or days between backwashes. The second type is MASTER PROGRAMMING...
  • Page 14 2. Valve Type (Display code VT): Set to DF2b. This means it is set for standard Down-flow mode, similar to a water softener so we can take advantage of the flow meter in this Fleck 7000 5-cycle valve, but we won’t be using all the 5 cycles that the water softeners use. Press the Extra Cycle button to go to the next step.
  • Page 15 Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide meaningless for filter valves, and is designed for water softeners which remove calcium hardness in grains per gallons. However, if you set it to 20, to start with, you will later see the number of gallons between cycles when you are finished programming based on your size of system.

  • Page 16: Troubleshooting The Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Filter

    Carbon filter. You can verify the backwash flow rate by running the drain line into a bucket and timing it when the Fleck 7000 is in Cycle 1 or backwash. A 1.0 or 1.5 cubic foot system should have 5 gallons per minute and a 2.5 cubic foot system should have 10 gallons per minute of backwash.

  • Page 17: How To Remove The Red Clips From Fleck 7000 Control Valves Without Breaking Them

    Step 1: Turn off water to the Fleck 7000 and relieve the water pressure by opening up a faucet in the house. You can also put the Fleck 7000 on bypass, by turning the bypass valves to bypass. Either way, the 7000 control valve must be depressurized before removing the red clips.
  • Page 18 Fleck 7000 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide How To Remove Media From Control Head Sometimes, when doing the Initial Backwash, the media gets lifted up into the control head. You can tell this happened because you will have little or no flow, either going out to drain while in the backwash positon, or when in the service positon.

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