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WATER SOFTENER START=UP
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SANITIZING
THE WATER
SOFTENER
1 = Care is taken at the factory
to keep your water
softener
clean
and sanitary_
Materials
used to
make the softener
will not infect or contaminate
your
water supply,
and will not cause bacteria
to form or
grow_ However,
during shipping,
storage,
installing
and operating,
bacteria
could get into the water soft-
ener_
For' this
reason,
sanitizing
as follows
is
suggested
'_ when
installing
1. Use a paii or hose to fill the salt storage tank with 3
gallons
of water..
2. Pour about 3/4 ounce
of common
525%
house-
hold bleach
(Clorox,
Linco,
Bo Peep,
White
Sail,
Eagle, etc.) into the brinew#!l,
FIG.. 17.
ADD WATER
AND FILL STORAGE
TANK
WITH
SALT
8rinewell
Cover
Water,
about
3 gallons
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3. Look at the faceplate
and press the HOLD-RE-
CHARGE
NOW
button
@, holding
in until
RCHG
begins
to flash in the faceplate
display,
starting
a
recharge.
This first recharge,
or regeneration
'-'_, d oes
several things.
Tank
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a. It draws
the bleach
into and through
the water
softener,
to sanitize
it.
b. It fills the salt tank to the needed
water level..
c. It gets all the air out of the resin tank.
d. It makes the resin bed (page 19) ready for serviceo
The regeneration
takes about 2 hours. After that, soft
water goes into the house pipes. Then you can drain
hard water from the water heater'. Open a hot water
faucet
until the water
runs cold, then close faucet.
The tank refills with soft water. (It will take a few days
before your hot water is fully soft if you do not drain
the heater,)
CO Recommended
by the Water Quality Association.
On some water' supplies,
the water softener
may need
periodic
disinfecting_
(_ RECHARGE
and REGENERATION
means the same.
SET THE TIMER
2,
After the transformer
is plugged
into the electri-
cal outlet
(step
14, pg. 15), 12:00
AM, SUn-
day began to flash in the time display.
Set the time of
day and present
day of week as follow&
A.
SET TIME
OF DAY
1. Press the PRESENT
TIME
AND DAY button
[]
once_ The hour display
continues
to flash.
2. Press the SET/CLEAR
button
[] until the present
hour of the day shows in the display.
Be sure AM
for morning
hours, or PM for afternoon
and even-
ing hours show&
NOTE:
Press
SET/CLEAR
and quickly
release
to
move the hour display ahead 1 at a time to the correct
hour. Or, hold the SET/CLEAR
button to move the
display
ahead
2 hours each second,
to the correct
hour°
3. Press button
[] once to steady
the hour' display,
and minutes
begin to flash. Repeat step A2 to set
the correct
minute&
4. Press button [] again to steady the minute display
(day
will begin
flashing).
Figure
19 shows
the
timer set at 3:30 PM See step B to set the present
day_
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