Dergrah
New Member
I need help to figure out why my water softener has never worked and if I need to replace to whole unit or fix the problem. I’ve created a separate post on figuring out if the rest of my set up is sufficient.
Current set up is attached. Last water test results are below. A few times a year I used to get Iron Bacteria from the well.
I installed it 4 ½ years ago and it has never worked.
I had someone out to look at it and they said the following.
1. That the backwash flow was too low with the ½ pipe I had shared between the softener and the carbon filter. ( this is now upgraded to 1â€)
2. That the media could be dead due to chlorine pass-through from carbon filter, I ran it in by pass for a few weeks thinking it would be good to kill any iron bacteria.
I took apart the unit this morning and found that the down pipe in the unit is not making a tight seal in the fleck 700 head. The pipe 1-1/16th and the opening for it in the head is 1-1/4th. See attached pictures.
I assume this is a problem and that I was sent the wrong down pipe assembly when I bought the unit online.
Can some one confirm this? Based on my water test should this unit be sufficient in softening my water and removing the iron and manganese with chlorination?
PARAMETER UNITS Sample
Alkalinity as CaCO mg/L 268
Chloride mg/L 49
Conductivity uS/cm 710
Fluoride mg/L 0.16
N-NO3 (Nitrate) mg/L <0.10
pH 7.45
REDOX Potential mV 78
Sulphate mg/L 36
Tannin & Lignin mg/L 0.4
Hardness as CaCO3 mg/L 312
Ion Balance 0.95
Calcium mg/L 102
Magnesium mg/L 14
Potassium mg/L 3
Sodium mg/L 19
Iron mg/L 0.97
Manganese mg/L 1.48
Thank You !
Derek
Current set up is attached. Last water test results are below. A few times a year I used to get Iron Bacteria from the well.
I installed it 4 ½ years ago and it has never worked.
I had someone out to look at it and they said the following.
1. That the backwash flow was too low with the ½ pipe I had shared between the softener and the carbon filter. ( this is now upgraded to 1â€)
2. That the media could be dead due to chlorine pass-through from carbon filter, I ran it in by pass for a few weeks thinking it would be good to kill any iron bacteria.
I took apart the unit this morning and found that the down pipe in the unit is not making a tight seal in the fleck 700 head. The pipe 1-1/16th and the opening for it in the head is 1-1/4th. See attached pictures.
I assume this is a problem and that I was sent the wrong down pipe assembly when I bought the unit online.
Can some one confirm this? Based on my water test should this unit be sufficient in softening my water and removing the iron and manganese with chlorination?
PARAMETER UNITS Sample
Alkalinity as CaCO mg/L 268
Chloride mg/L 49
Conductivity uS/cm 710
Fluoride mg/L 0.16
N-NO3 (Nitrate) mg/L <0.10
pH 7.45
REDOX Potential mV 78
Sulphate mg/L 36
Tannin & Lignin mg/L 0.4
Hardness as CaCO3 mg/L 312
Ion Balance 0.95
Calcium mg/L 102
Magnesium mg/L 14
Potassium mg/L 3
Sodium mg/L 19
Iron mg/L 0.97
Manganese mg/L 1.48
Thank You !
Derek