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    Short cycling

    Ok, powered the pump off. Drained the tank - little to nothing came out. Bled air out of the pressure tank until it showed about 28 psi. Ran water from a faucet and I guess it acts normal now. The rate at which I see pressure drop from 50 to 30 is smooth and slow. That seems strange to me. The...
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    Short cycling

    I have a 30/50 switch and a 20 gallon pressure tank. During the last two weeks or so, I noticed slight but frequent drops in water pressure that go away after a couple seconds. Running water and I see the pressure drop from 50 to 40 relatively slowly and then drop off sharply to 30 and the pump...
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    Furnace condensate

    I understand the water from the furnace is acidic, I haven’t tested mine. Other than that, is there any other negatives to using that water to put into a warm humidifier? Sorry if it’s a dumb question.
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    just as a follow up because I hate when people don't put the resolutions to their problems on forums - Part of the problem I think I was having with my softener was the feet that came with it for the plastic screen in the brine tank. On the one I ordered, it came with cones as feet but, they...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    I'm gauging the softness via my dishwasher and via my hair in in the shower. Originally I felt that "greasy" feeling on my skin and I don't now. Iam also aware of stiffness of my hair in the same measure. Not anything like when I had pretty much 85 grain hardness to wash with but, off the top o...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    So I can add 9 gallons of water to the brine tank, wait 3 hours or so for it to dissolve salt and then run a regeneration cycle. Repeat for the second tank. I wrote all this, this morning and was trying to read about the efficiency, and read something about setting it for 6 versus 8, thought at...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    I have a couple more questions. 1 - I would like to regenrate both tanks completely, the full 96,000 grains each, can you tell me what settings would do that, then I would manually regenerate both tanks and start over fresh with the current settings that have beem suggested. 2 - Does the (BF =...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    Works. Used up the hot water and now the water is soft. Whoo Hoo!. How nice is that. Thank you very much.
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    The BFLC label says 0.5 GPM. There is a white label and one like yours that I can't make out. My water seemed like it is getting harder. I had about 18 gallons left with the new settings. I regenerated it and it never seemed to draw water from the brine tank. - the cycle started with the water...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    Hah, bold = roar I guess. It's the way I tried replying, I was trying to on comment #23 of this. I made comments in the reply, wanted to use highlighter on my comments, couldn't find it, used bold instead. Posted it and saw the way I had replied, was minimized. So I figured no one would really...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    My real question is why with the settings I had, that the system cycled through both tanks new and was fine but, after each tank was on it's second run of normal use, I could tell the water was harder and I'd get some of the frosting type look on glasses in the dishwasher. That's my main...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    "IF your BLFC is 0.5 I would use the following. It may not be optimum, but its what I currently think. Let me know if you find mistakes." I attached a picture Injector as 3? - This is the Bflc Drain Flow 50 or 30? gpm. The number isn't perfectly legible to me. The capacity is 96,000 per tank
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    Setting it per the settings you suggest changes the current display of gallons remaining from 1017 to 705.
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    I replaced the softener with a 9100sxt, 96,000 grain dual tank. I used the water through the first tank until it cycled, used the water through the second tank until it cycled. I can tell that the water now though, isn't as soft as the first two times, having the 2 tanks brand new. So, I figured...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    I'm sure I can get something and install it but I don't have a sense for what's a good system or just an overpriced one. My plumbers quote of--- (1)IMPS-1054 Impression Plus with air filteer & 1-clair Chlorination tank and (1)IMP 1354 Twin Impression Plus twin softener--- I'm not sure what that...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    I got the test results back. I went through and took out all the results that were "None found (acceptable result)" and am left with this: Test Result Units Boron, total 0.22 mg/L Calcium, total...
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    I'm surrounded by farm fields and so I wanted to see "everything" including some other chemical concerns I have. Figure I'd just start with that test.
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    I mis-typed. Haven't ordered anything yet. That should've been "equipment I was quoted". I got the 360 test but haven't had a chance to do it yet. Got it the night before I traveled.
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    Well, overkill I suppose but, I ordered the 360 test.
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    I'm Starting To Get My Softener Replaced.

    My 32k softener is still going. Haven't ordered a test yet. I bought the UV light because, why not? I bought it to kill microbes, if any. I was really hoping somebody could tell me more about the models of the equipment I ordered. I have a brochure but I didn't seem to find to much in the way of...
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