Hello,
We are on Well Water. We are upgrading our 50 years old softener to a newer flack control valve based system where resin capacity is 2.5 cubic feet. We have already bought this so no turning back on this ..right or wrong. our well water hardness is crazy 58 grains per gallon and we thought a good softener system with decent capacity is way to go.
The current system has Well to Pressure tank then to iron remover then to softener and then to house plumbing. Only the Well to Pressure tank seems a large Poly kind of pipe approx 1 1/2 or may be 2 inch diameter but then after the pressure tank , every thing is 1/2 inch copper.
The pressure tank is set to 40/60 psi setting . Its is written on the tank that on this setting it provides 5 gallons per minute draw-down.
In the new setup both the iron remover ( approx 0.75 or may be 0.5 cubic feet) and the old softener ( approx 1 cubic feet) are being replaced by a single cylinder 2.5 cubic feet fancy new softener.
When we bought this softener we were told that 1/2 inch pipe coming from pressure tank to the softener might be an issue for effective regeneration of this new larger softener so we should think to upgrade to 3/4 inch pipe.
We wanted to take your opinion that changing the pipe from pressure tank to softener from 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch will not cause any other issue for any other component of my system like pressure tank or well pump etc.
Then what about output of the softener? We currently have that as 1/2 inch and not thinking to change it. Just a connector to convert 3.4 inch softener output to 1/2 inch and connect to existing pipe.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance
Edit : Added problem of pressure tank after some observation. Pump seems to run only for 5 seconds at a time from 40 psi to 60 psi and a shower bring down 60 to 40 in 1 minute 25 seconds.
We are on Well Water. We are upgrading our 50 years old softener to a newer flack control valve based system where resin capacity is 2.5 cubic feet. We have already bought this so no turning back on this ..right or wrong. our well water hardness is crazy 58 grains per gallon and we thought a good softener system with decent capacity is way to go.
The current system has Well to Pressure tank then to iron remover then to softener and then to house plumbing. Only the Well to Pressure tank seems a large Poly kind of pipe approx 1 1/2 or may be 2 inch diameter but then after the pressure tank , every thing is 1/2 inch copper.
The pressure tank is set to 40/60 psi setting . Its is written on the tank that on this setting it provides 5 gallons per minute draw-down.
In the new setup both the iron remover ( approx 0.75 or may be 0.5 cubic feet) and the old softener ( approx 1 cubic feet) are being replaced by a single cylinder 2.5 cubic feet fancy new softener.
When we bought this softener we were told that 1/2 inch pipe coming from pressure tank to the softener might be an issue for effective regeneration of this new larger softener so we should think to upgrade to 3/4 inch pipe.
We wanted to take your opinion that changing the pipe from pressure tank to softener from 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch will not cause any other issue for any other component of my system like pressure tank or well pump etc.
Then what about output of the softener? We currently have that as 1/2 inch and not thinking to change it. Just a connector to convert 3.4 inch softener output to 1/2 inch and connect to existing pipe.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance
Edit : Added problem of pressure tank after some observation. Pump seems to run only for 5 seconds at a time from 40 psi to 60 psi and a shower bring down 60 to 40 in 1 minute 25 seconds.
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