First of all -thanks guys for the help/advice
ditttohead said: ↑
If you close the inlet side of the bypass, you will know exactly what the unit feeds. Check to make sure it is feeding everything in the house that you want it to.
Done, I have dedicated untreated line to ice maker/kitchen sink-cold and sillcock
had a stainless valve on it and had all sorts of problems, metering was worse, it wouldn't even go through regeneration properly,
Care to elaborate?
I have been in contact with vendor, he sent new valve assembly, I installed and noticed no difference in performance. Both valves would not go through the regeneration steps correctly, steps would not advance to next, I messed up and forgot to manually advance steps and woke up one morning to a softener that spent the whole night regenerating.
Out of curiosity I plugged in old valve which was in box to outlet and hit regen,
it went through all steps exactly as programmed
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Thinking the only thing that it could be was water flow I then replaced stainless bypass with the plastic one that came with unit, started a regeneration cycle and it worked, only the first step, backwash, hung up and had to manually advance to brine draw, the rest of the cycles went fine, and I had soft water again- Hach test.
I have city water, not sure of pressure but it's decent
I will check meter to ensure it's on the right way, that's something that I could have missed, although I don't understand what that would have to do with regen cycle issues
I'll try a shower head thats not a low flow
What is a flow straightener?, I thought about a 6' nipple out of bypass to first 90??
I'm at work and not exactly sure of order of cycles,
I think they are
Backwash-10 minutes
Brine Draw-60
Backwash -10
Rapid Rinse-10
Brine Fill- can't remember, vendor had me lower minutes as I didn't like all the water sitting above salt
hopefully I answered all questions