With just the two of us, what are my optimal settings for the Fleck head? Salt usage, gallons etc.
Many thanks...
I used 72000 grains of capacity per regen.
I selected 8 pounds/cuft of resin, or 24 pound of salt total per regen. I don't know how to set that, so if you don't know, say so. Somebody else will know.
Next, there is something called high hardness compensation.
https://terrylove.com/forums/index....0-sxt-programming-settings.60651/#post-450189
With that in mind, your hardness would be calculated as 108*1.5. If I back off that 162 to 157, and compute with that, I get
457.5 US gallons of softening. But if I take a 120 (2*60) US gallon reserve into account, I get 337.5 gallons. That is the number you would set the white dot on the Econominder to.
With some experience, you could move the white dot to a higher or lower number. I compute that you would get 3.81 days of softening between regens, but of course that will be 3 or 4. Use less soft water, and it lasts longer. If you use less regularly, you could take that into account by subtracting a smaller number of gallons from 457.5.
There is more than one kind of Econominder wheel setup, but I think the white dot next to the number is the same regardless.
Usually, with the Hach 5B test, you would test a mix of 1 part test water with 3 parts distilled. Then multiply the number of drops by 4.