Fleck 5800SXT recommended settings

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Brody Reb

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Water: Well water supply - 13 gpg hardness, 0.164 mg/L iron, 0.034 mg/L manganese

Water setup in order:
Carbon backwash filter 12x52 Fleck 5800SXT
Softener: Fleck 5800SXT Valve, injector black, Drain Flow 3.5gpm (label), 1" ss bypass, 2.0 cu ft resin, 64,000 grain capacity.
5 micron Big Blue
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Household: 2 adults, 3 children. 175 gal use / day (avg based on winter usage)

DF - GAL
VT - dF1b
CT - Fd
C - 40
H - 13
RS - SF
SF - 15
DO - 14
RT - 4 am
BW - 10 min
BD - 60 min
RR - 5 min
BF - 19 min
FM - t0.7
RE - off
VR - off

Manual regeneration completed 2 days ago. Hach 5b test shows 0 hardness and water seems good. Any recommendation to fine tune or corrections?
 

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Injector unlikely to be black.
I infer you have a 0.25 gpm DLFC

You could cut the backwash down to maybe 6 minutes.
 

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With 19 minutes, you could increase C some. Round the C number down.

Revised based on number from https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/help-for-programming-fleck-5810.82673/#post-595983
BLFC = 0.25
cubic ft resin = 2

Alternative C and BF pairs:
lb/cuft ; C= ; BF=


5.625 ; 40.7 ; 15
6.000 ; 42.0 ; 16 #less salt use, OK for many
6.375 ; 43.3 ; 17
6.750 ; 44.5 ; 18
7.125 ; 45.6 ; 19 #where you are with 19 minutes.
7.500 ; 46.6 ; 20
7.875 ; 47.6 ; 21
8.250 ; 48.6 ; 22 #silkier water
8.625 ; 49.5 ; 23
9.000 ; 50.3 ; 24
 

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With 19 minutes, you could increase C some. Round the C number down.

Revised based on number from https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/help-for-programming-fleck-5810.82673/#post-595983
BLFC = 0.25
cubic ft resin = 2

Alternative C and BF pairs:
lb/cuft ; C= ; BF=


5.625 ; 40.7 ; 15
6.000 ; 42.0 ; 16 #less salt use, OK for many
6.375 ; 43.3 ; 17
6.750 ; 44.5 ; 18
7.125 ; 45.6 ; 19 #where you are with 19 minutes.
7.500 ; 46.6 ; 20
7.875 ; 47.6 ; 21
8.250 ; 48.6 ; 22 #silkier water
8.625 ; 49.5 ; 23
9.000 ; 50.3 ; 24

Thank you so much for the # comments. I was having a hard time wrapping my head around the variables and the actual result of certain settings. That really helps.
 
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