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WATER CONDITIONER
GENERAL
WATER SOFTENER
MAINTENANCE
CHECKING
THE SALT STORAGE
LEVEL,
Brine
(salt dissolved
in water)
is needed
for each
and every regeneration.
The water for making brine
is metered
into the salt storage
area by the softener
valve and timer. However,
you must
keep the tank
full of salt.
AND REFILLING
........................
pure. NUGGET,
PELLET
or coarse SOLAR
salts are
recommended.
Do not use rock, block, granulated,
and ice cream
making
salts. They contain
dirt and
sediments,
or mush and cake, and will create main-
tenance
problems.
WHEN
TO REFILL
WITH SALT: Check the salt level
a few weeks after you install the softener
and every
week after that. Never allow the softener
to use all
the salt before you refill it. Without salt, you will soon
have hard water.
Use clean water softener
salts only, at least 99.5%
NOTE:
WATER
SOFTENING
SALT WITH
IRON
REMOVING
ADDITIVES:
Some salts have an ad-
ditive to help the softener
handle iron in the water
supply. Although
this additive may help to keep the
softener
resin clean, it may also release
corrosive
fumes
that weaken
and shorten
the life of some
softener
parts.
BREAKING
A SALT BRIDGE
..........
Sometimes,
a hard crust or salt bridge forms
in the
salt storage
area. It is usually caused by high humid-
ity or the wrong
kind of salt. When the salt bridges,
an empty
space forms
between
the water and sa]t.
Then salt will not dissolve
in the water to make brine.
If the brine tank is full of salt, it is hard to tell if you
have a salt bridge. Salt is loose on top, but the bridge
is under it. The following
is the best way to check for
a salt bridge.
Salt should
be loose all the way to the bottom of the
tank. Take a broom handle, or like tool, and careful-
ly push it down intothe
salt, working
it up and down.
If the tool strikes
a hard object
(be sure it's not the
bottom
or sides
of the tank),
it's most likely a salt
bridge.
Carefully
break the bridge with the tool. DO
NOT pound on the walls of the tank.
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push tool into salt
bridge to break
Pencil
Mark
Broom Handle
Salt
"_
Salt Bridge
_. Water Level
If the wrong
kind of salt made the bridge, take it out.
Then fill the tank with nugget or pellet salt only. In hu-
mid areas,
it is best to fill with less salt, more often.
CLEANING
IRON OUT OF THE WATER SOFTENER
...............................
Your water
softener
takes
hardness
minerals
(cal-
cium and magnesium)
out of the water.
Also, it can
control some (see specifications,
page 4) "clear wa-
ter" iron. With clear water iron, water from a faucet
is clear when first put into a glass. After 15 to 30 min-
utes, the water begins to cloud or turn rust colored.
A water
softener
WILL NOT remove
any iron that
makes the water cloudy or rusty as it comes from the
faucet
(called
red water iron). To take red water iron
out of water,
or over the maximum
of clear
water
iron, an iron filter or other equipment
is needed.
If your water supply
has clear water iron, periodic
resin bed cleaning
is needed.
Clean the bed at least
every 6 months,
or more often if iron appears
in the
soft water between
treatments.
Follow directions
on
the resin bed cleaner
container.
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