Summary of Contents for Clean Water Systems 7500-M
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7500-M Neutralizer 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 neutral pH 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.
Table of Contents Packing List ..............................3 Pre‐Installation .............................. 4 Best Practices for Piping & Drain Installation Fig 1 ..................4 Installation of Your System On Copper or Metal Piping Systems ..............5 How Your Neutralizer Works Fig 2 ........................ 6 Fig 3.
7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide Packing List Neutralizer 1.0 cubic foot size 7500 Backwash Control Valve 10” x 44” filter tank with distributor tube Blue or black funnel for adding media first time 12 lbs. Filter gravel + 1 cubic foot of Calcite media Neutralizer 1.5 cubic foot size...
7500-M Neutralizer 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-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide 3. Make sure to connect the IN pipe to the 7500 inlet and the OUT pipe to the outlet. As you face the 7500 control from the front, the water enters on the right and exits on the left.
7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide How Your Neutralizer Works Fig 2 In your Neutralizer, the water enters the top of the tank and flows down through the media and up the distributor tube and out to the home plumbing.
7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide Assembly and Installation Instructions 1. Wrap the top of distributor tube with electrical or duct tape so that no gravel or Calcite will go down the distributor tube when adding the media. 2. Add the filter gravel that came with your order. You will want the gravel to cover the bottom distributor screen before adding the Calcite media.
7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide 8. Add a small amount of silicone grease to the tank threads and screw on 7500 control valve carefully. Do not use pipe‐joint compound, vegetable oil, Teflon tape, or Vaseline or other petroleum greases to lubricate tank threads.
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7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide *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-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide This should be left at its default, [F-00]. This will have the system only backwash and rinse once per service. 4) To change the Service Days: Service days indicates how often the system will operate and backwash/rinse. The recommended setting for a neutralizer filter is 7 days.
7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide Initial Backwash 1 After programming, the system must be run through an initial backwash. 2 Close inlet ball valve and outlet ball valve and open the bypass valve. 3 Press the Manual/Return button to enter the backwashing cycle. When the backwash icon is displayed, slowly open the inlet valve B to a quarter position to make the water flow into the resin tank;...
7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide Maintenance Check level of neutralizer media in the tank by shining a flashlight from behind. When new or recently serviced the media should be about 2/3rds full in the tank. When level of media drops to 50% or less add more neutralizer media to bring back up to 2/3rds full and then backwash and rinse 2 ‐3 times to clean the new media.
7500-M Neutralizer Installation & Startup Guide Alternatively, you can manually backwash it several times on a given day, etc. Secondly, you can open up the bypass valve slightly, and allow some untreated water to lower the pH by blending in some of the lower pH water. In 6 – 12 months or next service just add less Corosex.