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The regeneration cycle ran last night with the longer backwash and rapid rinse. There was still a bit of brown in the water but it cleared after running water for only a couple minutes.

I've had the issue pretty much since I bought the new softener system. Could it have gotten fowled so quickly? I've not noticed a salty taste after regeneration.

I changed the BW and RR as suggested by AKPSDVAN. Hopefully the details of lab test are readable: Analysis Units Recommended Limits Analysis Results Total Coliform /100ml 0 0 pH pH units 6.5 - 8.5 7.11 Specific Cond umhos/cm 500...

Hello again, Last spring I had we purchased a house in MA. Our well water was lab tested with the following results: Coliform negative ph: 7.11 Sodium 38 mg/l Total Iron .41 mg/l Manganese .12 mg/l Total Hardness 277 mg/l Alkalinity 147 mg/l Chloride 115 Turbidity 7.1 Free CO2 92...

OK, I think I'm finally getting it! Thanks for everyone's help. I will set my BF to 8 minutes for a 8 lbs/ cu ft salt dose. Does the 30K capacity setting for a 5-6 day regen cycle make sense for my brown water issue? Do any other setting look problematic?

Thanks Dittohead - sorry i missed the question in your earlier post. I have the black sticker with silver print. It says .5

Thanks for the constructive advice. I'm struggling with how you program the lbs of salt per ft3 each regen as I followed the programming guide supplied by Ohio Pure Water to get my settings. I thought the unit size at 48K was the correct setting. I then reset it to 36K but after more...

OK here are my present settings on the 5600 SXT: DF / GAL VT/DF 1b CT/FD NT/1 C / 48 1 1/2 cu ft unit purchased H /18 I changed it from 16 where it was before. 277 PPM hardness + .41 PPM iron + .12 PPM mang Is 18 correct? SF / 20 DO / 6 I changed from a prior...

Dana Thanks for the advice here and in your email. I've received one quote that wanted to use two 2 1/2 two head units. Seems like overkill. I expect another quote in the next day or two.

I had the boiler guy here on Thursday and we flushed the hot water heater. I thought the brown water issue was from the hot water side but spoke too soon. This morning I ran cold water for the dog bowl and had brown water. I checked the SXT5600 softener and the reading showed 2400...

Dana, Once again you have provided a wealth of information. Based on this as well as you PM, I'm sold on ductless - as much so for the heating as the cooling. I have a couple contractors providing quotes. Thanks for all your help on this board. Nukeman, Thanks also for your help...

I have the Plus 60 model.

Dana, Thanks for all the info. Our home is a pretty modern design cape. Full 8' walls, 2x6 construction, lots of anderson thermal windows, R30 in attic - which I plan to increase. With oil at $3.75 and electric at 14 cents in Hull I like the numbers of using heat pumps I spent last...

Thanks for the ideas. I need to have the boiler guy out for annual maintenence so will have him show me how to safely drain and flush the Weil-Mcclain indirect fired water heater. Since it is less than five years old I don't want to relace it. The manual says to relieve the pressure on the...

We recently bought a 12 year old well built 2700 ft2 cape style home near the coast in MA. We have baseboard hot water heating from a oil fired boiler. No ducts currently. We are looking to add air conditioning. The attic space is wide open and there are well positioned 2nd floor closets...