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Pre-Installation
1. Review your packing list and make sure you have received all the parts before beginning installation.
2. If you are going to be turning off the water to the house and you have an electric water heater, shut
off the power to the water heater before beginning installation in case water heater is accidentially
drained.
3. Pick a suitable location for your filter system on a dry level spot where it won't be exposed to freezing
temperatures. A minimum of 20 PSI is required. Maximum pressure is 90 PSI.
4. Get all of your plumbing parts together before beginning installation. Installation typically takes 3 to
5 hours. However, after installation the system must be allowed to run through a complete backwash
and rinse cycle.
5. After the system is installed and running your water may be discolored or full of sediment/rust,
particularly if this is older or corroded piping. This typically clears up over a day or two.
Best Practices for Piping & Drain Installation
1. See typical installation (see Fig 2). The system is installed after the pressure tank.
2. Make sure to connect the IN pipe to the Fleck 2510 inlet and the OUT pipe to the outlet (see Fig 2). As
you face the Fleck 2510 control from the front, the water enters on the right and exits on the left.
From the back (see Fig 2) the water enters on the left. The inlet and outlet are attached to the bypass
valve which is marked with arrows as well.
3. Make sure there is a working gate or ball valve before the Fleck 2510 system and also one after as
shown in Fig 2. The pressure gauges are optional and perhaps not necessary but a hose bib (which is
a faucet that you can attach a garden hose to) is strongly recommended after the neutralizer filter
and before the second ball valve. This makes it easy to rinse your new filter on start-up and gives you
a place to test the water before it enters your household plumbing. It also makes it much easier to
perform maintenance in the future.
4. If you will be using copper piping, do not sweat the copper pipe directly on to the Fleck 2510 control
valve. Avoid heating up the Fleck 2510 control valve plastic with the torch.
5. If have copper pipe before the neutralizer and it is too difficult to change out, you may still experience
some copper staining of fixtures and have a copper residual in the water because this section of pipe
will still have acidic water flowing through it. We recommend PEX or PVC pipe up to the neutralizer
and then copper after it, if you have copper plumbing.
6. You do not need unions to install your Fleck 2510 control. If you need to remove it, the Fleck 2510
has quick-release couplings that make it easy to put the system on by-pass and remove the filter
system from the piping.
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