I am brand-new to this forum.
My problem is that after my water softener regenerates/backwashes my water is dirty for a couple of hours. All my valves (see below) are Fleck 5600 and they all seem to manually cycle correctly. My softener is using salt and is backwashing appropriately and seems to be softening okay as well. There are two people total in the house. It has been suggested to me that the problem may be that I had my carbon filter backwashing too frequently. I shifted from every three days to every six. It seems to have helped some. I’m wondering if I could just get a new valve with an adjustable backwash setting, such as the Fleck 5600se or 6600, and that an increase in backwash duration might fix the problem. I’ve bought parts here and there over the past three years and have relied on what I could learn on the internet. Thanks so much for any advice. JJ
My water conditions three years ago were:
Hardness as CaCO3 100 mg/l
Iron 1.7 mg/l
pH 6.4
In May 2007 my water tested as:
Hardness as CaCO3 150 mg/l
Iron 11 mg/l
pH 6.3
And post filtering in May 2007:
Hardness as CaCO3 <1 mg/l
Iron <.007 mg/l
pH 6.8
My system is, in this order:
A Stenner chlorine injector with two 40 gallon retention tanks.
A 10x47†tank with about 1.0 cubic foot of calcite (bw every four days).
A 10x47†tank with a cubic foot of Centaur Carbon which I replace every year (bw every 6 days).
A 10x47†tank with 1.5 cubic feet of standard water softening resin (bw every three days).
My problem is that after my water softener regenerates/backwashes my water is dirty for a couple of hours. All my valves (see below) are Fleck 5600 and they all seem to manually cycle correctly. My softener is using salt and is backwashing appropriately and seems to be softening okay as well. There are two people total in the house. It has been suggested to me that the problem may be that I had my carbon filter backwashing too frequently. I shifted from every three days to every six. It seems to have helped some. I’m wondering if I could just get a new valve with an adjustable backwash setting, such as the Fleck 5600se or 6600, and that an increase in backwash duration might fix the problem. I’ve bought parts here and there over the past three years and have relied on what I could learn on the internet. Thanks so much for any advice. JJ
My water conditions three years ago were:
Hardness as CaCO3 100 mg/l
Iron 1.7 mg/l
pH 6.4
In May 2007 my water tested as:
Hardness as CaCO3 150 mg/l
Iron 11 mg/l
pH 6.3
And post filtering in May 2007:
Hardness as CaCO3 <1 mg/l
Iron <.007 mg/l
pH 6.8
My system is, in this order:
A Stenner chlorine injector with two 40 gallon retention tanks.
A 10x47†tank with about 1.0 cubic foot of calcite (bw every four days).
A 10x47†tank with a cubic foot of Centaur Carbon which I replace every year (bw every 6 days).
A 10x47†tank with 1.5 cubic feet of standard water softening resin (bw every three days).