Summary of Contents for Clean Water Systems 7500 Series
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Clean Water Made Easy www.cleanwaterstore.com 7500 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 chlorine 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.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide Carbon Filter 1.0 cubic foot size 7500 Backwash Control Valve w/ Bypass Assembly and Pipe connector kit (1”or ¾”) 9” x 48” filter tank with distributor tube Blue media funnel for adding the Carbon media 12 lbs.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide 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 accidentally drained.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide under line pressure from your well pump. Most plumbing codes require an air-gap connection, so that if your sewer or septic tank backs up, it cannot cross connect with the drain tubing. Installation of Your System Into Copper or Metal Piping Systems: If your new filter system is to be installed in a metal (conductive) plumbing system, i.e.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide Assembly and Installation Instructions: 1. Wrap the top of distributor tube with electrical or duct tape so that no gravel or Carbon media will go down the distributor tube when adding the media. 2.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide Build Your 3-Way Bypass: The 7500 Does not come with a pre-made bypass; you have to build one yourself. Schedule 40 or 80 PVC, or Pex pipe is okay to use. You also can get a pair of flex lines- instead of the unions shown where the Elbow Connector is, you could have slip by male fittings, then flex lines, then male nipples, and then you do not have to worry about plumbing it with too much pipe deflection- this must be avoided, as pipe deflection will put undue pressure on the control valve threads which may then crack.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide Programming Your Valve: *IMPORTANT*: Before any operation, the valve menu must be unlocked. If the button lock indicator is displayed, press and hold both the Up and Down buttons for 5 seconds. A sound will indicate the menu is unlocked. The menu will re-lock automatically after 1 minute of inactivity.
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7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide backwash (the blue Hourglass Icon will be lit) and the Backwash Start Time (only the green key is lit). Sample Displays Showing Service Mode and Backwash and Fast (or Rapid) Rinse Modes: Four Service Buttons: Left to right, Menu/Confirm, Manual/ Return, Scroll Down, Scroll Up. Up and Down Arrows: When the Green Key Icon is lit, press and hold both buttons to unlock.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide B. Button lock indicator • When the green Key Icon is lit, the buttons are locked. Press and hold both the Up and Down arrows to unlock. Buttons will lock 60 seconds after the last time a button is pressed. C.
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7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide You can now use either the scroll Up or Down buttons to stop at each of the 7 menu items you will need to program. They are listed below in the order they appear if you use the scroll down arrow and, when you enter the programming, it will be at whichever Menu option that was last displayed when the programming mode was exited.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide 7. 3 – 10 This menu item is for the number of minutes for the Fast (or Rapid) Rinse. The default is 10 minutes. Press the menu/confirm button, the 10 will flash; adjust it down to 06 with the Scroll Down button, and press the Menu/ Confirm button.
7500 Carbon Filter Installation & Startup Guide 4 After the backwash, the system will automatically go into the fast rinse stage. Both stages will last for as long as you have programmed that cycle step. The control valve will return to service status (indicated by the up-flowing meter on the left) after the backwash and rinse are complete.
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