Nezil
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My parents were kind enough to order the system parts that I needed for my softener install, and I spent a few weeks planning and ordering pipe components ready for the install (installation discussions in other threads here and here). I spent most of yesterday doing the install and it's all working, and best of all... no leaks!
The softeners system is as follows:
Based on my original calculation of:
27 Grains * 4 People * 60 Gallons / Day * 8 Days between regenerations = 51,840 Grains / cycle
I can set my 2.5 cuft system at 60,000 grains, resulting in 8lb / cuft resin regeneration. That's 8 * 2.5 = 20 lb = 6.66 Gallons to feed the brine tank = 26.66 minutes Brine Feed.
I have therefore now changed my 'C' setting to 60,000 and my 'BF' setting to 27.
Finally, I did run into a pretty serious problem, that I think I should point out for other new softener users like myself...
My system was pre-configured assuming a regeneration of 37.5lb salt / 12.5 gallons water, and a salt grid with 6" extensions raising it to nearly 12" off the base of the tank! Even with a Brine Feed of 12.5 gallons, it's questionable if the water would effectively dissolve the required salt, but with my reduced 20lb / 6.66 Gallons, the water level was way lower than the salt grid.
First question then is... does this all look right so far?
Following this, I have a couple of other questions related to these settings:
Finally, I did run into a pretty serious problem, that I think I should point out for other new softener users like myself...
My system was pre-configured assuming a regeneration of 37.5lb salt / 12.5 gallons water, and a salt grid with 6" extensions raising it to more than 10" off the base of the tank! Even with a Brine Feed of 12.5 gallons, it's questionable if the water would effectively dissolve the required salt, but with my reduced 20lb / 6.66 Gallons, the water level was way lower than the salt grid.
I was able to rectify the situation by removing the 6" extension legs from the bottom of the salt grid, and the water level is now well above the grid level. Anyone buying a large system and running it efficiently beware!
The softeners system is as follows:
- Fleck 7000SXT
- 2.5 cuft resin in 13 x 54 tank
- 1-1/4" connections (same size as my incoming line)
- 18 x 40 with Salt Grid brine tank
- DF: GAL
- VT: St2b
- CT: Fd
- C: 80,000
- H: 27
- RS: SF
- SF: 15
- DO: 14
- RT: 2:00
- BW: 10
- BD: 60
- BW: 5
- RR: 10
- BF: 50
- FM: t1.5
Based on my original calculation of:
27 Grains * 4 People * 60 Gallons / Day * 8 Days between regenerations = 51,840 Grains / cycle
I can set my 2.5 cuft system at 60,000 grains, resulting in 8lb / cuft resin regeneration. That's 8 * 2.5 = 20 lb = 6.66 Gallons to feed the brine tank = 26.66 minutes Brine Feed.
I have therefore now changed my 'C' setting to 60,000 and my 'BF' setting to 27.
Finally, I did run into a pretty serious problem, that I think I should point out for other new softener users like myself...
My system was pre-configured assuming a regeneration of 37.5lb salt / 12.5 gallons water, and a salt grid with 6" extensions raising it to nearly 12" off the base of the tank! Even with a Brine Feed of 12.5 gallons, it's questionable if the water would effectively dissolve the required salt, but with my reduced 20lb / 6.66 Gallons, the water level was way lower than the salt grid.
First question then is... does this all look right so far?
Following this, I have a couple of other questions related to these settings:
- I assume that the size of the mineral tank, and the amount of salt used determines the durations set for BW, BD, Second BW and RR; What would be sensible settings for these and my system?
- What exactly is happening during these different stages of regeneration, and why choose the values in the above question?
Finally, I did run into a pretty serious problem, that I think I should point out for other new softener users like myself...
My system was pre-configured assuming a regeneration of 37.5lb salt / 12.5 gallons water, and a salt grid with 6" extensions raising it to more than 10" off the base of the tank! Even with a Brine Feed of 12.5 gallons, it's questionable if the water would effectively dissolve the required salt, but with my reduced 20lb / 6.66 Gallons, the water level was way lower than the salt grid.
I was able to rectify the situation by removing the 6" extension legs from the bottom of the salt grid, and the water level is now well above the grid level. Anyone buying a large system and running it efficiently beware!