Dorrough
New Member
Hey, thanks to all the help and advice from you guys, the water softener is installed and running! Seems to all be working properly. But we were a bit confused by the regeneration calculations.
It's a Clack WS-1 valve, 2 cu ft resin tank (Thermax Thermion) and big old brine tank. The system was rated at 64,000 grains. Our water is 84 grains per gallon. There are just two of us, one bathroom at present with another coming online next year, washer coming later. We found a Clack manual online, and used to to program the valve but had to guess at some of the settings. One confusing thing is calculating the salt requirement. It seems that yes, 2 cf resin is capable of 64,000 grains but only if you use like ten pounds salt per cubic foot. Hate to use that much salt, we do have a septic system.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a regeneration schedule and salt requirements for this system? I've used a couple of online calculators and come up with everything from 3 to 10 pounds salt per cf. and we have to regenerate every four days. I sure hope that there is a more salt efficient way to do this. If anyone knows of a better online set of instructions for programming the Clack, it would be nice to have that too.
Thanks again to everyone who helped. We managed to get the softener installed AFTER the pressure tank, AFTER the particulate filter, BEFORE the hot water heater, overflow drain into basement drain, regeneration water goes up to the washer drain. Water tasts just nasty, so we will be getting an RO type filter for drinking water. Again, thanks so much. This is the best forum.
It's a Clack WS-1 valve, 2 cu ft resin tank (Thermax Thermion) and big old brine tank. The system was rated at 64,000 grains. Our water is 84 grains per gallon. There are just two of us, one bathroom at present with another coming online next year, washer coming later. We found a Clack manual online, and used to to program the valve but had to guess at some of the settings. One confusing thing is calculating the salt requirement. It seems that yes, 2 cf resin is capable of 64,000 grains but only if you use like ten pounds salt per cubic foot. Hate to use that much salt, we do have a septic system.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a regeneration schedule and salt requirements for this system? I've used a couple of online calculators and come up with everything from 3 to 10 pounds salt per cf. and we have to regenerate every four days. I sure hope that there is a more salt efficient way to do this. If anyone knows of a better online set of instructions for programming the Clack, it would be nice to have that too.
Thanks again to everyone who helped. We managed to get the softener installed AFTER the pressure tank, AFTER the particulate filter, BEFORE the hot water heater, overflow drain into basement drain, regeneration water goes up to the washer drain. Water tasts just nasty, so we will be getting an RO type filter for drinking water. Again, thanks so much. This is the best forum.