quadrdr17
New Member
I have the 48k grain Fleck 5600SXT water softener with carbon upflow system. After initial install my water was very soft and silky feeling. After 2 months it feels like I have hard water again. The water started feeling harder after the first REGEN. I am using Potassium because I have plants on the same water line. I'm willing to switch to sodium only if it will help the problem. I will water my plants another way. I did the backflush on the carbon upflow but I get carbon in my toilets. ABCwaters said some of the dust must have made it past the softener. I think that is what is making my water not so soft right now. I have 10grain hardness and now it is about 1grain. My settings are below. I have 5 people in the house but we use the water of about 2 people. It takes about 4 weeks to get the gallons down to 0. The DO seems to run the REGEN before the counter.
System info (not programmed)
BLFC = 0.5 ; Brine Refill rate GPM
cubic ft resin = 1.5 ; ft3 resin = (nominal grains)/32,000
Raw hardness = 10
People = 5 ; gallons affects reserve calc
Fleck 5600SXT Settings:
DF = Gal ; Units
VT = dF1b ; Downflw/Upflw, Single Backwash
CT = Fd ; Meter Delayed regen trigger
NT = 1 ; Number of tanks
C = 33.0 ; capacity in 1000 grains
H = 14 ; Hardness-- compensation for high hardness and iron.
RS = rc ; rc says use gallons vs percent
RC = 240 ; Reserve capacity gallons
DO = 21 ; Day Override (28 if no iron)
RT = 2:00 ; Regen time (default 2 AM)
BW = 5 ; Backwash (minutes)
Bd = 60 ; Brine draw minutes
RR = 5 ; Rapid Rinse minutes
BF = 7 ; Brine fill minutes
FM = P0.7
System info (not programmed)
BLFC = 0.5 ; Brine Refill rate GPM
cubic ft resin = 1.5 ; ft3 resin = (nominal grains)/32,000
Raw hardness = 10
People = 5 ; gallons affects reserve calc
Fleck 5600SXT Settings:
DF = Gal ; Units
VT = dF1b ; Downflw/Upflw, Single Backwash
CT = Fd ; Meter Delayed regen trigger
NT = 1 ; Number of tanks
C = 33.0 ; capacity in 1000 grains
H = 14 ; Hardness-- compensation for high hardness and iron.
RS = rc ; rc says use gallons vs percent
RC = 240 ; Reserve capacity gallons
DO = 21 ; Day Override (28 if no iron)
RT = 2:00 ; Regen time (default 2 AM)
BW = 5 ; Backwash (minutes)
Bd = 60 ; Brine draw minutes
RR = 5 ; Rapid Rinse minutes
BF = 7 ; Brine fill minutes
FM = P0.7