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Wanted to jump back in and say thanks for everyone's help. Got everything (except main bath-remodel time) hooked up yesterday. Got softener set up at 6 lbs. I noticed it did regen last night, is this normal for a new hookup?

Appreciate that ditto, will take any help that's available.

Hello, Been busy and about ready to turn on the new water lines. I got the 48K 5600xt softener and would like opinions on settings as follows. capacity - 27.3 hardness - 22 (I added 1 because of the minimal amount of iron) good or bad?? Safety Factor - 10% (not sure) Day override - 10 Brine...

This is some great info, exactly what I was hoping for. Will have to go over this info more thoroughly later as I am out of time this evening. Thanks for the info.

I'm mostly concerned about extra sodium that will be in the water after softened. I know that I'm not on some strict sodium diet but it might be a bit much for the parrots. I can give them non softened carbon filtered water as I currently do, I was hoping to get away from the calcium buildup in...

Yeah and that means I will have to regenerate the softener at 1:00 to 1:30am since I usually get up about 3:30-3:45. One more thing I'm deciding on. I was originally planning on using Potassium for softening and just using the softened water for drinking. After thinking more about that I decided...

Cool that's always a plus. When I first started looking I thought that if I got one too big it would take too long to regen, but I now realize that they have a few settings to adjust to what you need.

Thanks for the reply I was kind of leaning toward the 48K but wasn't sure. Since the price difference is so minimal it would make more sense.

Finally bought a house and got away from renting. Really need a softener and trying to figure this all out. Here are the details and what I have come up with. 1.5 bath standard shower and tub. no dishwasher but will get one eventually 1300 sqf home two adults currently have old galvanized...