Macki
New Member
I bought a Fleck 7000 sxt, On Demand, 48,000 or 64,000 grain (not sure how to tell after the fact) water softener to manage my hard water, classified as "very hard" using a litmus type water test. As I recall it was 40 grain per gallon hardness. I installed it about 5 years ago. This is on my own well. When it was first installed my water was very soft, a very noticeable difference. Over time the softness dissipated and it became hard again. The softener was cycling but didn't use much salt. I spoke with the seller (discountwatersoftenera.com) and they were of no help. Local water softener people only wanted to sell me a new unit, and it seemed they were not horribly knowledgable on the actual process or troubleshooting. Theyonly suggested dumping water in the brine tank thinking it was a salt dam. This succeeded in making the softeners function, however, but did make the water salty, and after a short amount of time it was hard again.
I found this site and after reading many posts on the subject determined that my softener, in the default settings, was not making enough brine. The brine cycle was 16 minutes. I found that my orifice is smaller than average, BLFC - 0.125, and it appears that they average 0.25. It also has an 00 injector, though I am unsure if this plays into my issues.
I reset the time for making brine to 40 minutes which gives me 5 gallons of brine. I ran a cycle, and repeated it that evening. The water is different, but not really soft, and it is noticeably salty, leading me to believe that it is not rinsing the media.
I believe the the media has been logged with minerals at this point, but am certainly not an expert, and am not sure it it is salvageable.
Other settings;
DF
Backwash 10
Brine draw 60
2nd backwash 5
Rapid rinse 10
Refill 12 (now 40)
Thank you,
I found this site and after reading many posts on the subject determined that my softener, in the default settings, was not making enough brine. The brine cycle was 16 minutes. I found that my orifice is smaller than average, BLFC - 0.125, and it appears that they average 0.25. It also has an 00 injector, though I am unsure if this plays into my issues.
I reset the time for making brine to 40 minutes which gives me 5 gallons of brine. I ran a cycle, and repeated it that evening. The water is different, but not really soft, and it is noticeably salty, leading me to believe that it is not rinsing the media.
I believe the the media has been logged with minerals at this point, but am certainly not an expert, and am not sure it it is salvageable.
Other settings;
DF
Backwash 10
Brine draw 60
2nd backwash 5
Rapid rinse 10
Refill 12 (now 40)
Thank you,