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Clean Water Systems 5900e Installation & Start?Up Manual

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5900e Greensand 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 iron-free water for many years.
Please review this start‐up guide entirely before beginning to
install your system, and follow the steps outlined for best results.
GREENSAND MEDIA CONTAINS DUST. USE PAPER MASK AND
VENTILATE TO AVOID BREATHING DUST.
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  • Page 1 Clean Water Made Easy www.cleanwaterstore.com 5900e Greensand 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 iron-free water for many years. Please review this start‐up guide entirely before beginning to install your system, and follow the steps outlined for best results.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Assemble The Drain Line Flow Control Hose Barb: ..................9 Fig 6. 5900e Pot Perm Line Installation: ..................... 10 Fig 7. 5900e Potassium Permanganate Tank Set-Up & Installation: ............11 Programming Your Valve: ........................... 11 Master Programming Mode: ........................12 Initial Backwash: ............................

  • Page 3: Packing List

    Replacing The Brine Valve, Injectors, and Screen ................... 21 Packing List Greensand Filter 0.75 cubic foot size 5900e Plus Backwash Control Valve w/ Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1”or ¾”) 8” x 44” filter tank with distributor tube Blue media funnel for adding the Greensand media 8 lbs.

  • Page 4: Greensand Filter 2.5 Cubic Foot Size

    1. See typical installation on page 7 (Fig 2). The Greensand filter is installed after the pressure tank. 2. Make sure to connect the IN pipe to the 5900e inlet and the OUT pipe to the outlet (see Fig 3).

  • Page 5: Installation Of Your System Into Copper Or Metal Piping Systems

    The drain line tubing (not supplied) is connected to a drain from the drain outlet using flexible ½” ID tubing. Note that the drain can run up above the 5900e control and into a drain, it does not have to drain down, as the filter backwashes under line pressure from your well pump.
  • Page 6 6. Attach plastic top screen to the under-side of the 5900e control valve. It is a funnel-shaped plastic screen that snaps on to the control valve and prevents media from being backwashed out to drain during the regeneration cycles.

  • Page 7: Fig 5. 5900E By-Pass And Pipe Connectors

    7. Add a small amount of silicone grease to both O-rings on the bottom of the control valve and screw on 5900e control valve carefully. Do not use pipe-joint compound, vegetable oil, Teflon tape, or Vaseline or other petroleum greases to lubricate tank threads.
  • Page 8 5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide Flow Sensor >> 1. When you remove the bypass valve from the box, the valves are in the open position. Holding the bypass so that you are reading the In and Out (so that the words are not upside down to you when holding the bypass), note the following: 2.

  • Page 9: Assemble The Drain Line Flow Control Hose Barb

    5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide b) If the valve you are attaching the bypass to has a flow sensor (see picture 3), lube the two O- rings and push the bypass assembly onto the flow sensor, and attach the steel mounting clips and screws.

  • Page 10: Fig 6. 5900E Pot Perm Line Installation

    It is OK to run the drain line up and over the 5900e Greensand 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 11: Fig 7. 5900E Potassium Permanganate Tank Set-Up & Installation

    5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide Fig 7. 5900e Potassium Permanganate Tank Set-Up & Installation: 6. First remove the rubber band that comes on the float assembly from the manufacturer. Add enough clean water to the pot perm solution tank to bring water level about 1” above the felt pad.

  • Page 12: Master Programming Mode

    5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide *While scrolling through numbers, it only increases the value. To decrease the value, you will have to “go all the way around” to get back to a lower value. 1. To enter main menu press the Menu/Enter button (Time of day will flash) 2.
  • Page 13 5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide 1. Regeneration Time (r) Press the Menu/Enter Button. The next display viewed is the option setting for Regeneration Time. It is identified by the letter ‘r’ in the left digit. Set the desired time of day that a regeneration may occur, if required.

  • Page 14: Initial Backwash

    5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide Initial Backwash: 1 If days remaining is not already at 1 press and hold the Set/Change button. Now, press and hold the set change button again, until the valve begins the backwash cycle and the display reads 1 –...

  • Page 15: Maintenance

    5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide Maintenance: Normal Operation -Normal display alternates between time of day and days until regeneration. -Days remaining until the next regeneration will count down from the regeneration day override value to 1 day remaining.

  • Page 16: Error Codes

    Troubleshooting the 5900e Greensand Filter: Pot Perm Not Being Sucked In During Regeneration Most problems occur when the 5900e is not drawing in the brine. Make sure the injector is drawing in the brine: 1. Remove the brine tank tubing where it enters the 5900e control valve.

  • Page 17: System Not Backwashing Adequately

    You can verify the backwash flow rate by running the drain line into a bucket and timing it when the 5900e is in Cycle 1 or backwash. A 1.0 or 1.5 cubic foot system should have 2.0 gallons per minute and a 2.5 cubic foot system should have 4.0 gallons per minute of backwash.
  • Page 18 12 minutes for standard size Clack pot perm tanks. If you have a larger commercial size tank, set for 20 minutes. If it is still not filling, the brine valve may need to be cleaned. In the 5900e manual, in the diagram “Valve Assembly”, disconnect the parts listed and clean them thoroughly.
  • Page 19 5900e Greensand 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.
  • Page 20 5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide More Troubleshooting Tips: PROBLEM / SYMPTOM POSSIBLE CAUSE SOLUTION Iron or manganese or sulfur No permanganate in solution Add permanganate powder to tank and odor in treated water after tank regenerate greensand filter...
  • Page 21 5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide Strong sulfur odor before and High levels of hydrogen sulfide In some cases, the greensand filter may after Greensand filter gas in well water need a chlorine feed (or ozone, oxygen or other oxidizer) prior to the filter. Make...
  • Page 22 5900e Greensand Filter Installation & Startup Guide 5A. To Replace Brine Valve. 1. Remove the control valve back cover. Disconnect the meter signal wire from the meter. 2. Remove screw and washer at drive yoke. Remove powerhead mounting screws. The entire powerhead assembly will now lift off easily.

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