On Feb 10, 9:05 pm, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:53:13 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

I have a 48,000 Grain water softener that 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.

Look on the control valve, for a sticker. Does it say/marked in pen
or marker 2.0 or 4.0? (factory setting upon order)

It seems you regenerate more than necessary. Mine is marked 2.0 - two
people, 75 gallons of water per day..all included.

Understand the 5600se control has a default regen cycle of 14 days,
iirc! You can up the number.

Oren
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That handwritten number is the DLFC button's gpm rating; that is the
drain line flow control. It is different for each cuft size softener
and the type of resin used. It has nothing to do with the number of
people.

The 14 days, it can go from 1 to 28 days, is the calendar override of
the metering. It should be set for the number of days between
regenerations based on the K of capacity dictated/established by the
salt dose lbs in the given volume and type of resin. Plus the type of
'salt' used for regeneration; sodium chloride (softener salt) or
potassium chloride (salt substitute) which is not as efficient as
softener salt because all residential ion exchange softener resin is
made in the sodium form, there is no potassium form resin. Depending
on the salt efficiency setting of the softener, you may have to
increase the salt dose by up to 30%.

Gary Slusser
Quality Water Associates