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Fleck 5600-SXT Softener
Installation & Start-Up Guide
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- Page 1 Clean Water Made Easy www.cleanwaterstore.com Fleck 5600-SXT Softener 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 filtered water for many years. Your new system comes with a printed Fleck Service manual, which along with this start-up guide will help guide you in the installation and start-up of your new system.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
How Your Softener Works ............................. 4 Installation Instructions ............................7 Attaching the brine line tubing to the brine tank & the Fleck 5600-SXT brine valve ..........9 Maintaining Your Softener 5600-SXT System ..................... 13 Replacing Brine Valve, Injectors and Screen ....................... 13 Brine Valve Replacement .......................... -
Page 3: Packing List
Packing List All models will come with: Quantity Description Fleck 5600-SXT backwash control valve & bypass valve Pipe connector kit (either 1”or ¾”) Black brine tank Media funnel You will also receive one of the following groups of items depending on the size of your system. -
Page 4: Pre-Installation
1. See typical installation (see Fig 1). The softener is installed after the pressure tank. 2. Make sure to connect the inlet pipe to the Fleck 5600-SXT inlet and the outlet to the outlet (see Fig 2). As you face the Fleck 5600-SXT control from the front, the water enters on the right and exits on the left. -
Page 5: How Your Softener Works
Fleck 5600-SXT Softener Installation & Startup Guide 5. You do not need unions to install your Fleck 5600-SXT control. If you need to remove it, the Fleck 5600-SXT has quick-release couplings that make it easy to put the softener on by-pass and remove the filter system from the piping. - Page 6 Fleck 5600-SXT Softener Installation & Startup Guide Fig 2 - Typical Softener Fleck 5600-SXT piping installation with ball valve and hose bib after the filter along with pre- and post-filtration if necessary: Page 5 www.cleanwaterstore.com Rev 072514...
- Page 7 Fleck 5600-SXT Softener Installation & Startup Guide Fig 3: Fleck 5600-SXT from the rear showing the inlet and outlet end-connector fittings 1” or 1-1/4” NPT in Noryl plastic. Brass end-connectors are also available for connecting to copper tubing. Outlet Inlet...
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Page 8: Installation Instructions
Installation Instructions 1. Unscrew by hand the entire Fleck 5600-SXT control valve from top of tank if it was shipped screwed on. Place distributor tube in tank if not already inside tank. If not already done, make sure blue cap is on top of distributor tube, or wrap the top of distributor tube with electrical or duct tape. - Page 9 5600-SXT threads into the tank. 6. Install the Fleck 5600-SXT backwash control-timer valve on to the top of the filter tank by hand, do not over-tighten. Tighten by hand, there is no need for a pipe wrench or other wrench.
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Page 10: Attaching The Brine Line Tubing To The Brine Tank & The Fleck 5600-Sxt Brine Valve
It is OK to run the drain line up and over the Fleck 5600-SXT Softener up to 4 feet above the top of the tank. If the drain line will be more than 20 feet, and especially if your system is a 2.0 or 2.5 cubic foot size, use larger diameter tubing such as ¾”... - Page 11 Fleck 5600-SXT Softener Installation & Startup Guide 13. Begin by sliding the plastic brine injector nut on to the brine tubing by putting the tubing through the non-threaded side of the nut. Next, slide the black (or clear) compression ring on to the tubing with the narrower diameter going on first.
- Page 12 Fleck 5600-SXT Softener Installation & Startup Guide 17. Now you are ready to turn on the water to the system. Turn on the water and leave on bypass and check for leaks. Leave the ball valve after the softener closed, so water is still off to the house, but connect a garden hose and open up the hose bib after the softener and allow the water to run.
- Page 13 36. At this point the softener will be in a backwash mode, which is the first of five cycles it goes through during regeneration. The backwash takes 8 minutes. After 8 minutes, the Fleck 5600-SXT will begin to suck up the brine solution from the brine tank.
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Page 14: Maintaining Your Softener 5600-Sxt System
40. After the regeneration process is complete, turn on the water to the house and run the water in the house for a few minutes. 41. Refer to your Fleck 5600-SXT service manual for more information about how your control valve is programmed if desired. -
Page 15: Injectors/Screen Replacement
Fleck 5600-SXT Softener Installation & Startup Guide Injectors/Screen Replacement 1. Remove injector cap and screen, discard O-ring. Unscrew injector nozzle and throat from injector body. 2. Screw in new injector throat and nozzle, be sure they are sealed tightly. Install a new screen. - Page 16 Fleck 5600-SXT Softener Installation & Startup Guide brine line flow control if plugged Hot water tank Repeated flushings of the hot water tank is required. hardness. Leak at distributor tube. Make sure distributor tube is not cracked. Check O-ring and tube pilot.
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Page 17: More Troubleshooting Tips
More Troubleshooting Tips Brine Solution Not Being Sucked In During Regeneration Most problems occur when the Fleck 5600-SXT is not drawing in the brine. Make sure the injector is drawing in the brine: 1. Remove the brine tank tubing where it enters the Fleck 5600-SXT control valve. -
Page 18: System Not Backwashing Adequately
You can verify the backwash flow rate by running the drain line into a bucket and timing it when the Fleck 5600-SXT is in Cycle 1 or backwash. A 1.0 or 1.5 cubic foot system should have 5 gallons per minute and a 2.5 cubic foot system should have 10 gallons per minute of backwash.