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SECTION2
HOW YOUR WATER SOFTENER
WORKS
B. SOFT WATER SERVICE and REGENERATION
SERVICE
REGENERATION
When
the
softener
is giving
you
soft water,
it is
called
"Service".
During
service,
hard
water
comes
from
the house
main
water
pipe
into the softener.
Inside
the softener
resin
tank
is a bed made
up of
thousands
of tiny, plastic
resin
beads
(FIG. 5). As
hard
water
passes
through
the bed,
each bead
at-
tracts
and
holds
the
hardness
minerals.
This
is
called
ion-exchanging.
Water
without
the hardness
minerals
(soft water)
flows
out of the softener
and
into
the house
soft water
pipes.After
a period
of
time, the resin beads
hold all of the hardness
miner-
als they can, and cleaning
with salt brine
is needed.
This cleaning
is called
regeneration
or recharge.
Re-
generation
is started
at 2:00 a.m. by the electronic
timer
(see page
2-5).
It takes
place
in 5 stages
or
cycles.
These
are:
I
ILL
i
BACKWASH
BRINING
FAST RINSE
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BRINE RINSE
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FILL:
Salt, dissolved
in water,
is called
brine.
Brine is needed
to clean the hardness
minerals
from
the resin beads.
_lb make
the brine, water
flows into
the salt storage
area during
the fill stage
as shown
in FIG. 6. Fill cycle length
depends
on how
much
soft water
making
capacity
you have used
since the
last regeneration.
As you
use more
water,
fill time
increases
so
more
brine
is made.
The
greater
amount
of brine
cleans
more
hardness
minerals
from
the resin bed.
Water Flow Through
the Softener
in Fill
soft water
hard water
OUT
IN
Water Flow Through
the Softener
in Service
soft water
hard water
OUT
IN
salt storage
tank
brine valve
\NXN\
salt storage
tank(salt
brine valve
resin tank
resin bed
fill water
2-2
Problems,
Questions?
Call 1-800-426-9345
Kenmore
Water Line
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