Kinetico sulfur guard valve

[Dieseldoc]

Good evening all,

Along with a new house purchase in June I acquired a softener with a fleck 5600 valve and a kinetico sulfur guard system. Neither seemed to work at move in, I had the local service company come out and check the system, they said everything was in working order. It still seemed to be acting up and I had the privilege of having the fleck stick in backwash and flooding my basement a month later. The service company came out again, did something that wasn't even itemized on the bill and said it was good to go again.

Fast forward another month and I realized the softener was never pulling brine. I'm now intimately familiar with the fleck valve, and I admire its simplicity in function now that I understand it.

The peroxide system (sulfur guard) is my mystery now. In 6 months it's never gone through regen. I finally did a manual regen and it did pull peroxide, but I definitely still have a sulfur smell constantly.

The sulfur guard has a valve on it, slide style spool valve, one side has a stripe of blue tape the other side red tape. Can anyone tell me what this valve is?? No amount of searching tells me, and I refuse to give the dealer any more money at this point. I'm assuming it's temp related but I'd really like to know for sure.


Thanks!
Will

 

[Dieseldoc]

Terrible pics... dark hole in my basement

 

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[Dieseldoc]

Also... since we moved in I added a UV light, a 5 micron filter and a carbon filter.

 

[Bannerman]

The spool valve shown is a manual bypass. I expect the Fleck valve has similar but likely a turn style control as opposed to a slider.

A bypass on each device permits water to flow past each unit in case either need to be removed for service. Also, if a raw water line wasn't installed for watering grass, both units could be bypassed while irrigation is occurring.

It sounds as though the Fleck head is due for a rebuild. A piston, seal and spacer kit is likely ~$50 and it would be an easy DIY project.

If you're planning on monitoring and maintaining your softener system, a Hach 5B Total Hardness test kit is a must have.

 

[Dieseldoc]

Thank you for the reply! The fleck does have a ball bypass valve. I did a piston and seals, a bribe valve and replaced the injector and brine screen. The softener works great now! I do need to get water samples done before the treatment system and after the last filter, I'm very curious what it actually happening.

 

[Reach4]

I suspect the picture shows the bypass in the "in service" position with the blue showing. I am not sure.