hello! I’m a new softener user and I, finding this forum extremely educational. I‘m having a bit of a hard time reconciling the settings that the technician who installed my water softener set versus the recommended settings the same company recommends for the same model of softener.
this is an upflow softener using the pentair 5800 XTR2 valve and controller. The water hardness (measured from city supply) is 25gpm. This is a household of two people. Regenerant agent is sodium chloride.
I attached a screen capture of the settings sheet with all the settings for the softener model I have that the installer says I should set.
my settings are, however, different. basically I have a higher salt dosage (7 vs 5 lbs/ft^3) and longer refill (22min), draw(50 min) and fast rinse (10m) times. (Same backwash time). Should I change the salt dosage and the rest of the times?
I would be very grateful if somebody could take a look at the settings they have on the sheet and let me know wnether there’s somethimg wrong with my settings or that the longer durations are associated with the higher salt dosage with respect to this sheet. Any advice as to how to modify this? Are there any important downsides to having longer draw and rapid rinse times?
thank you very much in advance!
this is an upflow softener using the pentair 5800 XTR2 valve and controller. The water hardness (measured from city supply) is 25gpm. This is a household of two people. Regenerant agent is sodium chloride.
I attached a screen capture of the settings sheet with all the settings for the softener model I have that the installer says I should set.
my settings are, however, different. basically I have a higher salt dosage (7 vs 5 lbs/ft^3) and longer refill (22min), draw(50 min) and fast rinse (10m) times. (Same backwash time). Should I change the salt dosage and the rest of the times?
I would be very grateful if somebody could take a look at the settings they have on the sheet and let me know wnether there’s somethimg wrong with my settings or that the longer durations are associated with the higher salt dosage with respect to this sheet. Any advice as to how to modify this? Are there any important downsides to having longer draw and rapid rinse times?
thank you very much in advance!
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