What capacity is a Kinetico 2060?

[NavySuit]

What capacity (grains) is a Kinetico 2060?

 

[NavySuit]

Here is the spec sheet:

Can anyone make sense of it? I see that it says that a 30,000 grain minimum is required. Is this for each tank? That would make sense if the 60 in the model number stands for grains.

https://www.wassertechnik-boehm.de/upload/11770642-Datasheet-Kinetico-2060s.pdf

 

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[Reach4]

Can anyone make sense of it? I see that it says that a 30,000 grain minimum is required. Is this for each tank? That would make sense if the 60 in the model number stands for grains.

It says

Each softener shall include non solvent cation resin having a minimum exchange capacity of 30,000 grains/ft³ when regenerated with 15.0 lbs/ft³.​

You will not be using anything like 15 lb/cuft. Plus, you are using 0.7 cuft -- not 1 cuft.

See the page before (lower left), where it says with 4.4 lbs. of salt (6.3 lb/cuft), expect to remove 16,630 grains between regenerations.

If this were advertised as other softeners are, it would be called either a 22400 or a 44800 grain softener. This would only be for comparison purposes, and not calculations...

 

[Bannerman]

The capacity that may be utilized is conditional on which salt setting is programmed within the head. The regenerated capacity for the 2060s is specified at the bottom of the 1st page of the pdf document you provided the link to. For instance, using 2.7 lbs salt will regenerate 12,481 grains capacity/tank whereas 4.0 lbs will regenerate 15,813 grains per tank.

Kinetico softeners by design, are not intended to be programmable by average users. Their installers are to program the hardness of the water and the salt setting initially, and the users are expected to allow the unit to operate without further involvement beyond occasionally adding salt.