diitto
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I'm new to water softeners, if you couldn't already tell. Can someone say what steps occur in the regeneration cycle?? Especially for the Puronics if anyone is familiar with that one??? Ahd what exactly is the backwash??? Can I assume it's where water moves through in the reverse direction as a cleaning process and most importantly, goes down the sewer dump line???
Assuming this brown material is getting concentrated and held in the carbon filter media, what about the regernation process might suddenly make that material now be free to come into our house water in one signifcant slug. Is it being backwashed out of the carbon media but not effectively or efficiently dumped to the drain??? Such that it's sort of sitting in there now waiting to move into our home water when next the valve opens to receonnect the house to the softener? As I said we moved the "backwash time" from "normal" to "longer" but sadly the Puronics literature is scant to say the least. The plumber could only guess that doing so likely upper the backwash time from maybe 6 to maybe 10 minutes...
So the whole process in a short nutshell???
Oh, and one other thing. The salt I've used to this point is Diamond Crystal "Bright and Soft" (yellow bag) water softener salt pellets. The plumber suggested the other day I might want to switch to a version in a green bag called Diamond Crystal "Iron Fighter water softener salt pellets. I went to the Diamond Crystal website to read more about what this specific salt does with respect to iron,
https://www.diamondcrystalsalt.com/product/iron-fighter-water-softener-salt-pellets
They say this salt is intended to be used where iron content is high but they don't say what this salt has in it that helps a water softener remove iron??? Anybody have an idea how this stuff works???
We do get reddish stain (easily removable) in our toilets every now and then.. Is that likely iron???
thanks... bob
Assuming this brown material is getting concentrated and held in the carbon filter media, what about the regernation process might suddenly make that material now be free to come into our house water in one signifcant slug. Is it being backwashed out of the carbon media but not effectively or efficiently dumped to the drain??? Such that it's sort of sitting in there now waiting to move into our home water when next the valve opens to receonnect the house to the softener? As I said we moved the "backwash time" from "normal" to "longer" but sadly the Puronics literature is scant to say the least. The plumber could only guess that doing so likely upper the backwash time from maybe 6 to maybe 10 minutes...
So the whole process in a short nutshell???
Oh, and one other thing. The salt I've used to this point is Diamond Crystal "Bright and Soft" (yellow bag) water softener salt pellets. The plumber suggested the other day I might want to switch to a version in a green bag called Diamond Crystal "Iron Fighter water softener salt pellets. I went to the Diamond Crystal website to read more about what this specific salt does with respect to iron,
https://www.diamondcrystalsalt.com/product/iron-fighter-water-softener-salt-pellets
They say this salt is intended to be used where iron content is high but they don't say what this salt has in it that helps a water softener remove iron??? Anybody have an idea how this stuff works???
We do get reddish stain (easily removable) in our toilets every now and then.. Is that likely iron???
thanks... bob