CRB
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Folks,
I understand ion exchange chemistry but I'm very new to water softeners. I have purchased and installed a Fleck 5000 sxt. I preferred it to the more popular 5600 due to the full 1" porting that should give lower pressure drop on my supply to the house. I have 32,000 gr set up as recommended in the manual and my water output has tested to less than 1 gr/gal so it looks to be working OK. My concern is there seems to be very little water in the brine tank. It's only a few inches above the grid. Is this enough? When I ran it through a regen cycle the water in the brine tank is gone in about 14 min but the brine cycle appears to be 60 min. Can somebody please tell me how the regen cycle works and what my settings should be for the programmable parameters. The instructions I received were very vague. Brine Fill was set for 12 and Capacity was set at 24 even though the unit I purchased (and sticker on the unit) was 32000.
All help to this ultra-newbie to water softening person is very much appreciated.
Chris
I understand ion exchange chemistry but I'm very new to water softeners. I have purchased and installed a Fleck 5000 sxt. I preferred it to the more popular 5600 due to the full 1" porting that should give lower pressure drop on my supply to the house. I have 32,000 gr set up as recommended in the manual and my water output has tested to less than 1 gr/gal so it looks to be working OK. My concern is there seems to be very little water in the brine tank. It's only a few inches above the grid. Is this enough? When I ran it through a regen cycle the water in the brine tank is gone in about 14 min but the brine cycle appears to be 60 min. Can somebody please tell me how the regen cycle works and what my settings should be for the programmable parameters. The instructions I received were very vague. Brine Fill was set for 12 and Capacity was set at 24 even though the unit I purchased (and sticker on the unit) was 32000.
All help to this ultra-newbie to water softening person is very much appreciated.
Chris