Hi everyone, I have been skulking around for a little bit and reading up and think I have a bit of an idea on what I'm doing but would like some help.
First off, what I am trying to do is to make my softener as efficient at possible to use the least salt and water I can. What I have is a Clack-WS1 head on 1.5 cuft of softener resin.
Now here are my results for my water:
Hardness: 120ppm (7gpg)
Ferrous Iron: 0ppm
Ferric Iron: 0.23ppm (treated with sodium silicate by city)
Chloramine: 0.64mg/l
TDS: 184
pH: 7.36
Water Usage: average 64 gallons per day (calculated based on our water bill).
It is only my wife and I in the home and we are very water concious. As such we want to make sure we can make this softener as efficient as possible. Now if my thinking is correct a 1.5cuft softener is around 30k grains. What I am thinking about doing is regenerating it as 30k grains then then setting it to 20k (setting the salt dosing to 6lbs). With my hardness I could have it regenerate every 2500 gallons and still have around 350 gallons reserve which is quite allot for us but would most likely accommodate when we have guests over. We have 3.5 bathrooms in the home but never run more than 1 shower and the laundry machine or dishwasher at once (both very high efficiency, low water usage models) and maybe a toilet flushing or the kitchen sink running for a brief period. I would say our peak water usage would be around 4-6 gallons per minute.
Now I have heard that channelling isn't a problem any more and also heard that you cant let a softener go more than 7 days without a regeneration. I am not sure which to believe and having it regenerate at 2500 gallons could be up to 38 days for our normal water usage, which would be great if I could let it run that long, but I am skeptical that you guys are going to say "yeah that's fine".
Also in my thinking if I have regenerated once to 30k and am then regenerating to 20k, does the remaining 10k stay usable, so if one cycle I have guests over and go way over the limit before it cycles it will still last?
Let me know what you guys think! Or if you think there is anything better I could be doing to make my softener more efficient I'm all ears!
Thanks!
First off, what I am trying to do is to make my softener as efficient at possible to use the least salt and water I can. What I have is a Clack-WS1 head on 1.5 cuft of softener resin.
Now here are my results for my water:
Hardness: 120ppm (7gpg)
Ferrous Iron: 0ppm
Ferric Iron: 0.23ppm (treated with sodium silicate by city)
Chloramine: 0.64mg/l
TDS: 184
pH: 7.36
Water Usage: average 64 gallons per day (calculated based on our water bill).
It is only my wife and I in the home and we are very water concious. As such we want to make sure we can make this softener as efficient as possible. Now if my thinking is correct a 1.5cuft softener is around 30k grains. What I am thinking about doing is regenerating it as 30k grains then then setting it to 20k (setting the salt dosing to 6lbs). With my hardness I could have it regenerate every 2500 gallons and still have around 350 gallons reserve which is quite allot for us but would most likely accommodate when we have guests over. We have 3.5 bathrooms in the home but never run more than 1 shower and the laundry machine or dishwasher at once (both very high efficiency, low water usage models) and maybe a toilet flushing or the kitchen sink running for a brief period. I would say our peak water usage would be around 4-6 gallons per minute.
Now I have heard that channelling isn't a problem any more and also heard that you cant let a softener go more than 7 days without a regeneration. I am not sure which to believe and having it regenerate at 2500 gallons could be up to 38 days for our normal water usage, which would be great if I could let it run that long, but I am skeptical that you guys are going to say "yeah that's fine".
Also in my thinking if I have regenerated once to 30k and am then regenerating to 20k, does the remaining 10k stay usable, so if one cycle I have guests over and go way over the limit before it cycles it will still last?
Let me know what you guys think! Or if you think there is anything better I could be doing to make my softener more efficient I'm all ears!
Thanks!