Hello everyone,
A few months ago I purchased and had installed a Fleck 7000SXT softener. I had a long problem ever since it was installed with the salt tank over-filling with water. Finally today the tech came back out and reseated the brine valve and it looks to be working as intended (possible o-ring seated incorrectly).
Now that it is working, I seem to be having issues with the Brine Fill stage of things. I don't seem to be putting enough water into the salt tank now. Let me give a description of the system and the home it is installed in.
System:
Fleck 7000 SXT
48,000 Grain / 1.5 cu. ft. Resin
18x33 Brine Tank w/ Grid
.125 BLFC
Home:
5b/3.5bt home with 2 adults.
60-70 Gallons per day use.
Hardness at 20.
The settings the controller is set to are the following:
Capacity: 35 (x1000)
Hardness: 20
Reserve: 10
Day Override: 8
Regen Time: 2:00am
Backwash 1: 8
Brine Draw: 60
Backwash 2: 6
Rapid Rinse: 6
Brine Fill: 12
So with the BF set at 12 and I am running a BLFC at .125, I am only putting in 1.5 gallons in the salt tank. So when I regen the system, during the Brine Draw phase, about 9 minutes into the draw, it starts sucking air, and it has pulled everything out of the tank. I check the water level before I ran the regen, and it wasn't even above my salt grid.
So my thought was that I should be using around 6lbs. of slat per cubic foot of resin. What I don't know is how to figure out how water I need in my tank to create an adequate solution. Should I be setting the BF to 24 minutes to get 3 gallons of water in the salt tank? Is there a formula to figure out how much salt I need in my tank? Right now I have 40 lbs with the idea that the first regen would create be a large fill to get a good solution started from a dry system.
Anyway, I am rambling now, but I could use some help in this matter.
Thank in advance,
-Z
A few months ago I purchased and had installed a Fleck 7000SXT softener. I had a long problem ever since it was installed with the salt tank over-filling with water. Finally today the tech came back out and reseated the brine valve and it looks to be working as intended (possible o-ring seated incorrectly).
Now that it is working, I seem to be having issues with the Brine Fill stage of things. I don't seem to be putting enough water into the salt tank now. Let me give a description of the system and the home it is installed in.
System:
Fleck 7000 SXT
48,000 Grain / 1.5 cu. ft. Resin
18x33 Brine Tank w/ Grid
.125 BLFC
Home:
5b/3.5bt home with 2 adults.
60-70 Gallons per day use.
Hardness at 20.
The settings the controller is set to are the following:
Capacity: 35 (x1000)
Hardness: 20
Reserve: 10
Day Override: 8
Regen Time: 2:00am
Backwash 1: 8
Brine Draw: 60
Backwash 2: 6
Rapid Rinse: 6
Brine Fill: 12
So with the BF set at 12 and I am running a BLFC at .125, I am only putting in 1.5 gallons in the salt tank. So when I regen the system, during the Brine Draw phase, about 9 minutes into the draw, it starts sucking air, and it has pulled everything out of the tank. I check the water level before I ran the regen, and it wasn't even above my salt grid.
So my thought was that I should be using around 6lbs. of slat per cubic foot of resin. What I don't know is how to figure out how water I need in my tank to create an adequate solution. Should I be setting the BF to 24 minutes to get 3 gallons of water in the salt tank? Is there a formula to figure out how much salt I need in my tank? Right now I have 40 lbs with the idea that the first regen would create be a large fill to get a good solution started from a dry system.
Anyway, I am rambling now, but I could use some help in this matter.
Thank in advance,
-Z