EcoWater Timetronic 314 User/Installer Handbook page 33

SERVICE
Hard water enters from the back of the controller and flows down
to the resin tank. As if flows down through the resin bed, the
resin beads attract the hardness minerals from the water and
holds onto them.
This is known as ' ! Ion Exchange".
Depending on how many hardness minerals are in the water,
and how much water is used, the resin bed reaches a point
where it can no longer hold onto any more minerals. The resin
bed needs cleaning. Cleaning the bed is known as "Regeneration"
or "Recharge".
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RECHARGE
BRINE-
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RESIN
BED
Recharge is triggered by
different methods according
to your type of machine.
A Timetronic will recharge
on .the days programmed
regardless of how much of
the capacity is used. A
Sensatronic has a meter built
into the valve outlet. As water
is used the meter sends
electronic pulses to the
circuit board computer
registering the volume used.
The hardness of your water is
prograrr~med into the
controller. All of this
information is collated
together with the knowledge
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of the time since the last
recharge and water usage
cycle.
The computer continually
updates this information to
calculate when the next
recharge is due. When .this
occurs recharge tonight is
displayed.
THE RE-CHARGE CYCLE
A) FILL
Water passes through the brine valve andinto the brine tank. The
fill water dissolves the stored salt to make brine solution. This
solution is used t o cleanse or re-charge the resin bed.
Timetronic units have a pre-set fill time to soak sufficient brine
to cleanse the resin bed.
Sensatronic. units calculate the exact proportion of brine
required to recharge the capacity used.
During the fill, softened water continues to pass to service.
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