I recently bought a DIY Fleck 5600 valve with a resin tank and 1 cu
ft. of resin (with turbulator) and a smaller brine tank than my old
system. I have 3 questions. When I ask 3 questions of the guy I bought
the sys from he usually answers only the first. Either he doesn't know
the answers or he's ADD..lol. Relax Gary, it's not you, you have the
opposite problem ;-). Since the valve is the same as the one I
replaced, I changed the default setting for #'s of salt from 15 to 8.
That setting is next to the lowest 6# setting. Has anything changed in
the 20 yrs since i bought the Fleck? The thing looks the same, except
this came all plastic with a plastic bypass. I removed the new
plastic bypass and used the original metal bypass with new washers
from the new valve. The thing lined up perfectly with my old system so
I didn't have to do any plumbing which I was dreading (I would've used
ss couplings anyway). Nothing leaks and it seems to be working. The
tank came w/o a salt grid and I was tempted to use my old tank, but I
was lazy. Do I need a grid? Where can I buy one if I do? I use Morton
pellets in the yellow bag and add a 1/4 cup of Iron Out for every
40#'s of salt. Is there a better economical/efficient choice? That may
be 4 questions, but there are 3 kinds of people in the world, those
that can count, and those that can't.