Recent content by rightlane

yes, the only wires i can find involve the timer motor. i hear and see nothing on either of the timers i have,. i will check for 300mA, thansk

the only wires are the timer and the transformer, right?

hello all, i upgraded to a fleck 5600 econominder and have been happy for the last year, but it stopped working about a month ago. timer appears to not be keeping time at all and it won't manually regen. i replaced the timer motor and nothing changed. is there a way to check the transformer...

the auto fill is @ 60 ft under concrete away from the closest hard water source, so that option is out. i actually prefer having soft water for the pool, i definitely use less chemicals with it. thanks for all your input. the bypass off of the sears, will that work for other softeners or will...

what would a bypass for the pool do?

The auto-fill is soft water for the pool. which means water splashed out or evaporated is replaced. small volume i assume.

Wow, I feel privileged to have started a thread needing to be closed! That said, I've promised my wife that we would make a habit of buying quality products for replacement issues, and after most likely having multiple issues with the low end sears softener, will be upgrading. I've got one inch...

I purchased it used about 2 years ago. I'm guessing the unit is @ 8-10 years old. For as long as i can remember, I've had to manually advance the Gear? to draw brine. There is a small arm that is bent and closes a circuit while in contact with the round section of the gear. As the gear turns the...

Hello all, i have a ge smartwater softener, and sunday night adjusted the contact at the gear mechanism(sorry for wrong terminology) due to the unit not drawing brine properly. after i manually started a regen, everything appeared to work fine. the unit drew brine without me manually turning the...

is the micro switch the little tab making contact?

is the rotor shaft part of the rotor disc that i just replaced? is it what slides into the geared mechanism from below? i'm wondering if the geared mech might be off a bit. is the shaft a replaceable part? thanks

rechecked everything and started a cycle with no change, water dribbling out of venturi, manually advanced the gear mech and suction started! the rotor has been replaced but didn't solve the problem. is there a chance that the gear has become misaligned?

rotor disk replaced, all new rubber throughout, still no brine draw and water dripping out of venturi setup when i dc the hose, getting ready to kill it with fire. please help. thanks, Chris

there is water going to the drain in rinse and backwash cycles. i'm pretty sure there is water going to the drain as it tries to draw a venturi during brine draw cycle or at least it sounds like water is rushing at the start of brine draw. i'll check the venturi setup again. thanks, Chris

i popped the top off to be sure, but the drain spring is still there, and i pulled the figure 8 o-ring and it doesn't go in any other way. thanks, Chris