On Feb 10, 7:53 pm, wrote:
I have a 48,000 Grain watersoftenerthat I bought and Installed.
Everything worked great, and It worked fine with the settings "out of
the box" i.e. 15 lbs of salt and 854 gallons before a new
regeneration. Obviously, that is excessive salt use for a family of 4
with 17 gpg hardness and 1 ppm iron.

I was able to get those settings correct after about a week, but I
found that the 18x33 brine tank that came with the unit was too large
for the room thesoftenersits in. I bought a used 12x14
rectangular brine tank locally from asoftenerguy for 50.00. I gave
him the brine well and float and the 18x33 tank and he gave me this
new (used) tank that came off a old techneticsoftener. When I
installed the new brine tank, I found that when thesoftener(fleck
5600se) goes into brine/rinse stage, it starts sucking air and it
makes the water throughout the house salty and fizzy (lots of air in
the water). Is this because the float in the new (old) tank not
compatible with the 5600??? Thanks

He should have told you to keep the brine well, 23x0 float controlled
valve and the brine pickup tube from the first tank. Go visit or call
him and tell him about the air. That has nothing to do with the salty
problem, that is due to your settings on the control valve.

The "default settings" are not what you need, and 15lbs in a 1.5 cuft
(so called 48k) softener is regenerating less than 48k of capacity;
about 40k. For max 45K in a 1.5 cuft softener, you need 23 lbs of
salt. For help on settings find the sizing page at
www.qualitywaterassociates.com

Gary Slusser
Quality Water Associates