Summary of Contents for Clean Water Systems Fleck 7000
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Using a Chlorine Feed to Replace Potassium Permanganate Regeneration This is a supplement to the “Fleck 7000 Greensand Installation & Start-Up Guide” and details how to eliminate the need for regular regeneration with potassium permanganate, by setting up a chlorine or hydrogen peroxide feed for the greensand filter.
Setting up a Chlorine Feed Pump ........................5 Starting up Your New GreensandPlus Iron Filter ....................5 Reprogramming Your Fleck 7000 GreensandPlus Iron Filter ................6 Enter Master Programming Mode: ......................6 Use These Settings for your Greensand 7000 When Using a Chlorine Feed: ............7...
Fleck 7000 Greensand System Installation & Startup Guide Introduction GreensandPlus is a purple-charcoal filter media used for removing soluble iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic, and radium from well water supplies. Like its sister product, the old standard “manganese greensand,” the filter media has a manganese dioxide coated surface that acts as a catalyst in the oxidation-reduction reaction of iron and manganese.
Fleck 7000 Greensand System Installation & Startup Guide Understanding Free-Chlorine vs Total Chlorine It is important to have a simple chlorine test kit where you can test the total chlorine and free chlorine. Chlorine combines with iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide gas, bacteria, and other contaminants in a process known as oxidation.
Fleck 7000 Greensand System Installation & Startup Guide Setting up a Chlorine Feed Pump In Fig. 1 the chlorine metering pump is 220v and is wired to the same 220v circuit as the well pump. When the well pump turns on, the chlorine metering pump also turns on and injects 1 to 2 ppm of chlorine for every 1 ppm of iron.
Cycle 5: Pot Perm Tank Refill 12 minutes When you are using the Fleck 7000 Greensand Filter with a chlorine feed, you do not need Cycle 2 (Brine Draw) nor Cycle 5 (Pot Perm Tank Refill). It easy to reset these parameters: Enter Master Programming Mode: 1.
Fleck 7000 Greensand System Installation & Startup Guide Use These Settings for your Greensand 7000 When Using a Chlorine Feed: 1. Display Format (Display Code DF): Set display to GAL (stands for U.S. Gallons), or change to Liters or Cubic Meters if outside of the U.S. Press the Extra Cycle button to go to the next step.
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Fleck 7000 Greensand System Installation & Startup Guide 9. Regeneration Time (Display Code RT): Set to 2:00 am generally or sometime when no water is being used, and no other filter or softener is likely to be in a regeneration cycle.
Fleck 7000 Greensand System Installation & Startup Guide User Programming In the future, you can go into User Programming and make adjustments if you want to change the Day Override setting. Use the User Programming to avoid having to go through the Master Programming for quick changes to these settings below: 1.
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Fleck 7000 Greensand System 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.
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