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Thank you for the thorough post! It is really educational. The injector is 0.125 gpm. The diameter of the drain line is 3/4 of an inch. it goes basically horizontal for about 5-6 ft until be da towards the drain line where it discharges. I have checked and it may be possible that the hose was...

Thanks for all the comments. Regarding the brine fill, I was told by the retailer that it’s better to avoid formation of salt bridges. They configured it like that. your estimations are good, and the softener does not leak hardness at the very end of the cycle. However, the first 5 gallons...

I just checked this. Yes it looks like the softener is plumbed correctly as per your indication.

Yes sorry, the order of the last two steps is reversed. Backwash first and then the fast rinse. This was a typo. The durations are correct. Do they seem good to you? yes this is a bit of a curiosity since I’m practice it won’t make a difference but I would love to understand what’s going on and...

Untreated water is 34 gpg (very hard indeed). We are talking cold water. The faucet and the softener are not that far away so I would not expect several gallons of water to survive inside those pipes. thanks so much for helping out with this. I am not sure what can provoke this.

If it were that, can that last for something like 2 to 5 gallons after regen? Thanks again!

Hello, I’m observing something really strange: my softener arrives to the end of the regeneration cyclle with no hardness leakage at all (measured at 0 gpg). However after a regeneration cycle, the first 2-5 gallons register 2gpg to fall again to 0 gpg after that remaining as such until end of...

Thank you so much! Good to see that this is normal operation and that I can correct for it accordingly.

Hello, I am having a problem with my softener not registering flow below 0.2gpm. In particular my whole house humidifier is connected to softened water and uses less than that and consumes soft water without it being registered by the Fleck control unit. Is this a defective turbine? or is it...

Sorry I forgot to hit reply. my previous post is the reply to yours! :) Thanks friend

The hardness programmed was determined by the city prescription for my neighbourhood. I got to measure it using strips and got a colour compatible with the number they gave so I trust that number it is a 1 ft3 resin unit. This particular softener controller allows you to input independently...

Hello I am experiencing hardness leak at the end of the cycle (when there are about 70 gallons left before reserve) and I was trying to readjust the settings of my Pentair Fleck 5800XTR2 to readjust to avoid this. Since the softener is new, my water doesn't have iron and it's from the city...

Thank you so much. This is extremely helpful! I guess I have one last question: what should I do with the backwash and rapid rinse times. Should I leave them at 10min? Or would it be advisable to shorten them a bit? Seriously thank you so much for this.

Thank you so much for your answer I actually asked the installer if they could provide me with the settings for my softener (since I didn’t quite trust the person who installed it and hesitated when he changed the factory default settings) so I was not so surprised when they emailed that screen...

hello! I’m a new softener user and I, finding this forum extremely educational. I‘m having a bit of a hard time reconciling the settings that the technician who installed my water softener set versus the recommended settings the same company recommends for the same model of softener. this is an...

Thanks so much for your reply! It is municipal supply. There was a map of the area indicating the different hardness of water in the different areas and mine was 25 gpg. That is correct, the tank is 9'' diameter and 48'' high. it is Sodium Chloride because the tank is filled with regular...

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Hello! I have recently installed a new water softener and and the installer had to replace the controller because of a faulty touchscreen. The problem I have is that I had two different technicians that actually input two different and very different settings for my system and I am a bit...