Recent content by rnsmithtldiy

Reach4- That did it -- I got the table you are talking about. It will take me a little while to figure it out. As you can see by my posts (the lack of frequency) that I am slowing down and will not likely be doing much more on this until after Thanksgiving. But I am not finished yet and will...

Reach4, Gary, and Others - I haven't abandoned you, just got sidetracked with updating my Prescription Drug Plans for 2014 as well as beginning to search for medical insurance, since IBM is kicking all of their retirees out of their group coverage, giving us some money and telling us to go find...

Gary, I don't think I worded my last post very well. From your response, which I understand, what I was trying to say is: if 15 lbs/cu ft is the max salt dosage for 1 cu ft, 11.25 lbs of salt would be the max salt dosage for .75 cu ft of resin. So my 22.5 lbs of salt in my 7.5 gal of water...

I haven't mastered the gain business yet, but I think the grains are what they are for right now and will fall in place with the other calculations -- but can be used to determine salt dosage efficiency later. OK, based on the .25 gpm spec on the brine fill line and a 30 minute Fill time, I...

And here I thought all I had left to do was just change the Brine Refill time -- silly me. OK, Reach4, you have definitely got me in over my head now. I did look through the Densities of Saturated Solutions by the Geological Survey guys, and I think I will set that one aside for now, at...

Reach4- Thanks for trying to help me out here. It is amazing that there isn't more of a layman's explanation about this subject (max salt saturation, how long to saturate, etc,). I have seen several references to 26% being the salt saturation point for salt in water, but it didn't/doesn't...

OK, I am getting closer, I guess. Regarding your comments, I guess going by the .25 gal/min Brine Fill rate x 30 minutes, I must have 7.5 gallons going into the Brine tank -- and at 3 lbs per gallon, that is 22.5 lbs of salt per Regeneration -- and that does sound like a lot. So what should it...

Gary, Thanks. I understand the math. .25 gal/min x 30 min = 7.5 gal .75 lbs salt/min x 30 min = 22.5 lbs salt 22.5 lbs salt / 7.5 gal = 3 lbs salt/gal I get everything except the .75 lbs salt/min -- when it is just water going back into the brine tank for 30 min (i.e. how did they come up...

OK, Gary -- sorry if that was confusing. I thought all of these dials were probably the same -- each hole/mark on the dial representing 2 minutes. OK, so here it is again, from the hole marked "0" on the dial (same pin/hole count without the numbers): no holes 6 pins 30 holes 6 pins 15 holes...

Gary, thanks for helping with this. Yes-Yes-Yes, I found the stickers you have been asking about. It was where you said, at the joint where the brine line is connected to the control valve. But first, a confession (surprised you or someone didn't jump me about it). When I converted cu in to...

Gary, Thanks - you are way ahead of me -- I was going to ask for help in attacking the salt concentration and efficiency business next now that we have determined that my controller may not be broken after all. Thanks for telling me specifically what you needed. I will try to get that...

Gary- The good news for me is your opening statement: "sounds like it is working like it should". OK, I don't want to keep filling up the brine tank either (although I thought that to be a temporary fix if something was broken) -- I just did that to see if I could trace what was going on. So...

Gary- Well something happened overnight. I "think" the system went through regeneration because the water and salt levels are different this morning. The following changes are noted: - Water counter is back to its beginning point at 1400 (from 0) - Water level in the brine tank is about 3...