What components would you recommend?

[RWL]

I recently had our water retested because of a problem with our current Master NS-10T acid neutralizer / softener combination unit. The main problem with our well is an acidic pH, which has resulted in pin holes in our copper pipes that precede the softener. The NS-10 originally had calcite and it only got the pH up to 6.8, so I unscientifically added calcite / corrosex mix (I didn't spot the ratio on the bucket) and some remaining calcite from the original cube of mineral each time I filled the neutralizer. No blue stains in the sinks, but I haven't measured the pH after the treatment unit for years. Here are the test results.

pH 5.5
Hardness 3 Grains / Gal
Iron - Slight 0.2
Solids 72
Flow rate from well - 8.4 Gal / min
Nobody tests for Magnesium around here.

What components would you guys recommend?

[RWL]

PS. I forgot to add that it's now just my wife and I at home, so estimated 120 gal / day total water useage. 2-1/2 baths.

[Gary Slusser]

If your resin is the original, I suspect it should be replaced but, I would suggest replacing the equipment due to its age and built in inefficiencies.

I'd suggest a Fleck 2510 day timer valve on an AN filter with mixed bed mineral and the same metered or a 5600 STX metered version on a new softener. Backwash a new filter every 3 days.

You can learn about sizing and programming at the link in my signature.

[RWL]

You can learn about sizing and programming at the link in my signature.

How many grains of hardness will the acid neutralizer with calcite / corrosex mix add to the water?

What size acid neutralizer / cu ft of neutralizing material should I get?

[Gary Slusser]

Maybe 6-8 gpg will be added to the 3 you have now.

If you have a submersible pump and can raise the captive air pressure to 39 psi with no water in the tank and then the pressure switch to 40/60 psi, and no jetted tub or body spray shower, I'd go a 1.5 cuft. If a jet pump of any kind, a 1.0 cuft.

Backwash every 3 days.

[RWL]

Backwash every 3 days.

Why back flush every 3 days? One of the things I don't like about our current softener is that it's set to do just that, and I'm winding up using roughly 750+ lbs of salt a year, plus all the water from the well we're wasting and dumping in the septic system. If it has to be, it has to be, but I thought one of the newer systems might need to be backwashed less frequently. I had hoped it might be every 2 to 4 weeks on both the softener and the acid neutralizer.