Guy,
Remove the sensor from it's place around or in the outlet(?) tube and
hang it on the side of the softener. It will still be hooked up but will not
sense water flow since it is no longer positioned properly. Your water
softener will think you haven't used any water and so won't think the resin
needs to be regenerated.
Twice a month hit the manual regeneration button. If the water needs more
regeneration than every 2 weeks then do the manual regeneration every week.
Don't forget to regenerate. If you do forget it takes a while for the hard
water in the water heater to go away.
Dave M.
I was in stitches after the toilet joke, I appreciate the humor.
So what was the joke?
This is what I understand so far. . .
10 inch diameter 35 inch tall cylinder A contains plastic resin beads
4 inch diameter 35 inch tall cylinder B contains a float switch
Plastic Tank contains both cylinders plus salt.
Control head tracks or controls time of day, scheduled time of day for
regeneration, total generations since last serviced (resetable to zero).
I
programmed 14 grains per gallon hardness after having water tested and
asking village water department.
I unscrewed and carefully cleaned all the venturi parts, being careful to
put it back together correctly. I used a shop vac to remove excess water
and a light brown calcium looking slag from the bottom of the tank (below
this 1 inch of slag was clean white salt) and from the bottom of the float
and cylinder B.
1) Before I reload tank with 300 pounds of salt, I'd like to verify that I
shouldn't check anything else first. Any suggestions? I did careully
unscrew the water flow sensor and check it. This one centimeter by 5
millimeter long circuit chip (connected by 2 wires and a modular plug to
the
control circuit board) had a rubberized tip that look normal. I gently
wiped it with a clean rag and put it back in. I have no idea how this
sensor knows how much water has been used. Someone explaining this to me
may aid me in diagnosing the problem.
There's a turbine in the outlet(?) tube which spins when water flows.
There are 2 magnets on this turbine. Your sensor senses these magnets and
sees 2 pulses for every complete turn of the turbine. Thus the number of
pulses is an indication of water flow . Water flows is water use and the
chip in your softener converts the pulses into gallons of water used.
2) If my overall cleaning doesn't slow the regenerations to once every
1500
gallons or about every three weeks, what would you check or replace next?
I
can manually stop a reneration by pushing a "cancel regeneration" button
daily, but that will get old. I see no way to "schedule the
regenerations";
they are purely tied to water usage. The control head counts from 000 to
199 for every gallon used (knowledge taught to me on this newsgroup based
on
one toilet flush caused counter to cycle to 199 twice plus go back to
about
60) and starts a regeneration after an undetermined fixed amount of water
usage. I will watch my house meter to track water usage between
regenerations, but it was about 66 gallons before the cleaning. I am
hoping
the rapid frequency will be cured by the cleaning, but have no idea if the
accumulated calcium slag is the cause of the frequent regenerations. Has
anyone else had this experience?
I think the cleaning was a good thing but won't help your problem.
Something is wrong in the chip that calculates water usage. Are you sure
that the correct code for your model is entered into the chip? If the code
is right then you need to replace the PC board or regenerate manually
3) I'm guessing during normal operation, village water from my home's
water
meter flows into cylinder A, where the plastic resin beads trap minerals
and
calcium and then allow the "softened water" to flow out of cylinder A to
the
household appliances for use. Am I right?
Yes
4) During normal operation, where is it normal for water to be: In the
entire tank, or just inside cylinders A and B? Obvously, wherever water
gets and touches salt, a brine solution results, so I'm guessing water is
normally allowed everywhere inside the entire tank, and then the resulting
brine solution is somehow pulled inside cylinder A during regeneration to
clean the resin beads, then flushed to the floor drain. I'm guessing the
float switch controls how much water is allowed in the tank.
You have a brine tank and a resin tank. Water flows through the resin
tank to become soft. Brine flows from the brine tank into the resin tank
during the regeneration cycle to regenerate the resin.
5) Is it normal for the brown calcium slag to accumulate over time at the
bottom of the tank and inside cylinder B (float) or is this just since the
last regeneration and would another regeneration have cleaned all this out
or should calcium only be inside the resin cylinder between regenerations?
Calcium isn't brown. Crud does build up in the brine tank. this crud is
mostly impurities in the salt that you use. It is not a problem and should
be cleaned out occasionally (every 1-2 years)
6) For future knowledge, how often should I clean the venturi? It made it
6
years before becoming 75% blocked, so I'm guessing every three or 4 years.
Sounds reasonable. I take mine apart every 2 years, clean everything,
replace worn out parts.
Dave M.
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