Nami
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Hi,
I just registered for these forums after trying to program and install my water softener this past week. I couldn't find any previous posts regarding my questions so I was wondering if someone could help me with my questions.
First off, I bought a Fleck 5800 sxt water softener 64,000 capacity with a carbon upflow filter. Both the tanks are sized 12" x 52". I have a family of 4 and live in a 3,400 sq. ft. house. My water hardness was 20 GPG using the Hach testing kit.
The green sticker attached below states .12 GPM and .37 lb salt/min (I'm not sure what this means but the rep used this for the calculation for brine fill). Also, the injector is #00 but there is no gpm listed. I think according to the manual, the BFLC is 0.125 gpm.
When I first installed the water softener, the water would just go down the drain. After talking to the seller, he redirected me to contact Pentair. I troubleshooted with rep and told me to change the VT setting from dF1b to UFbd and that seemed to solve the problem of water going down the drain. However, I now have a problem of water not drawing up the brine line from the brine tank. I will troubleshoot this and check the filters and my brine.
I realized just tonight, that the location of injector was in the lower hole and in the manual it says that if the injector is in the lower, then the system is an upflow softener. I attached a picture of this. My question is can I take this injector and move it to the upper hole to use the system as a downflow softener? I am not sure if there are other parts of this valve that have already been configured to be used as an upflow. I read in the forums that the consensus is usually downflow is better than upflow.
My second question is, I wanted to know if I have the best settings currently after talking with the rep. I have included the information below:
Fleck 5800SXT Settings:
DF = Gal ; Units
VT = 5800 ; Valve type
RF = UFbd ; Regeneration Floww
CT = Fd ; Regeneration Control Type
C = 24.0 ; capacity in 1000 grains (I think the rep recommended the setting be changed to 36 but I’m not sure because the setting didn’t save)
H = 20 ; Hardness (tested using Hach kit)
RS = rc ; rc says use gallons vs percent
RC = 300 ; Reserve capacity gallons (The rep recommended this setting based on a family of 4)
DO = 14 ; Day Override (The rep recommended this setting)
RT = 3:00 ; Regen time (I set it at 3 AM)
BD = 60 ; Brine draw minutes
BW = 10; Backwash minutes
RR = 5; Rapid Rinse minutes (The rep recommended this setting)
BF = 10 ; Brine fill minutes (The rep recommended to change this setting I think to 32 minutes. For some reason the softener did not save the setting when I changed it and I do not recall what the rep said. Is this the correct setting for this? I forgot how he calculated this)
FM = t0.7
RE = OFF
VR = OFF
I just registered for these forums after trying to program and install my water softener this past week. I couldn't find any previous posts regarding my questions so I was wondering if someone could help me with my questions.
First off, I bought a Fleck 5800 sxt water softener 64,000 capacity with a carbon upflow filter. Both the tanks are sized 12" x 52". I have a family of 4 and live in a 3,400 sq. ft. house. My water hardness was 20 GPG using the Hach testing kit.
The green sticker attached below states .12 GPM and .37 lb salt/min (I'm not sure what this means but the rep used this for the calculation for brine fill). Also, the injector is #00 but there is no gpm listed. I think according to the manual, the BFLC is 0.125 gpm.
When I first installed the water softener, the water would just go down the drain. After talking to the seller, he redirected me to contact Pentair. I troubleshooted with rep and told me to change the VT setting from dF1b to UFbd and that seemed to solve the problem of water going down the drain. However, I now have a problem of water not drawing up the brine line from the brine tank. I will troubleshoot this and check the filters and my brine.
I realized just tonight, that the location of injector was in the lower hole and in the manual it says that if the injector is in the lower, then the system is an upflow softener. I attached a picture of this. My question is can I take this injector and move it to the upper hole to use the system as a downflow softener? I am not sure if there are other parts of this valve that have already been configured to be used as an upflow. I read in the forums that the consensus is usually downflow is better than upflow.
My second question is, I wanted to know if I have the best settings currently after talking with the rep. I have included the information below:
Fleck 5800SXT Settings:
DF = Gal ; Units
VT = 5800 ; Valve type
RF = UFbd ; Regeneration Floww
CT = Fd ; Regeneration Control Type
C = 24.0 ; capacity in 1000 grains (I think the rep recommended the setting be changed to 36 but I’m not sure because the setting didn’t save)
H = 20 ; Hardness (tested using Hach kit)
RS = rc ; rc says use gallons vs percent
RC = 300 ; Reserve capacity gallons (The rep recommended this setting based on a family of 4)
DO = 14 ; Day Override (The rep recommended this setting)
RT = 3:00 ; Regen time (I set it at 3 AM)
BD = 60 ; Brine draw minutes
BW = 10; Backwash minutes
RR = 5; Rapid Rinse minutes (The rep recommended this setting)
BF = 10 ; Brine fill minutes (The rep recommended to change this setting I think to 32 minutes. For some reason the softener did not save the setting when I changed it and I do not recall what the rep said. Is this the correct setting for this? I forgot how he calculated this)
FM = t0.7
RE = OFF
VR = OFF
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