pho
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Lately, the water pressure thru my 10 year old Gold serie Culligan WS is sometimes very low, almost to dripping. My booster pump is at 40-75 psi (I like to set at 55-75 psi but my switch 40-60 don't let me doing so).
I try to recycle it twice. In the the 2nd recycling, the resin spills out in one shot during the backwash cycle. Since the water is drained into the bucket, I've been able to recover 3 gallons of resin which looks like new. I decide to empty the resin tank to check the inside of the tank and the distributor.
I put a few cubic in of the old resin into the distributor and apply water pressure thru the pipe. Since resin is not spilling out of the distributor, it means that the small orifices in the distributor is small enough to prevent resin to come into the tube. Observation shows that the distributor and the pipe attached is still in good shape and well made with thick plastic. (I could not buy a new Culligan distributor anyway on the web)
I 've ordered 1 cubic ft of resin online and my dear wife has the patience to put it into the tank for 3 hours. After I reconnect the WS, I turn on the water and start recycling. I turn off the water when the new resin is spilling out again during the backwash. After waiting for the recycling to be finished, I turn on the water to put the WS running in mode for a while. No more media spilling in the next recycling.
My guess: The new resin which has not settled into the bed and few quantity is near the orifice, could be ejected in the backwash cycle. However, I still don't understand how the old resin is spilled out in the first place. In an old thread, somebody suggests that the cause could be the hi volume air in the water. Furthermore, I don't want it happen again in the next recycling.
I try to recycle it twice. In the the 2nd recycling, the resin spills out in one shot during the backwash cycle. Since the water is drained into the bucket, I've been able to recover 3 gallons of resin which looks like new. I decide to empty the resin tank to check the inside of the tank and the distributor.
I put a few cubic in of the old resin into the distributor and apply water pressure thru the pipe. Since resin is not spilling out of the distributor, it means that the small orifices in the distributor is small enough to prevent resin to come into the tube. Observation shows that the distributor and the pipe attached is still in good shape and well made with thick plastic. (I could not buy a new Culligan distributor anyway on the web)
I 've ordered 1 cubic ft of resin online and my dear wife has the patience to put it into the tank for 3 hours. After I reconnect the WS, I turn on the water and start recycling. I turn off the water when the new resin is spilling out again during the backwash. After waiting for the recycling to be finished, I turn on the water to put the WS running in mode for a while. No more media spilling in the next recycling.
My guess: The new resin which has not settled into the bed and few quantity is near the orifice, could be ejected in the backwash cycle. However, I still don't understand how the old resin is spilled out in the first place. In an old thread, somebody suggests that the cause could be the hi volume air in the water. Furthermore, I don't want it happen again in the next recycling.
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