JonnieBlaze
New Member
Hey everyone. I posted a month or so ago about some softener problems I was having. It is all resolved now and working properly, so thank you for the help.
My issue now is every couple weeks I have to take apart the top of the Fleck 7000 valve (the injector and little filter basket) and soak it all in iron out because it gets a chalky red iron build up on it. This will eventually plug up the injector so I have to be pretty diligent in keeping it clean. I'd like to figure out what options I have to reduce the iron before the softener in order to extend the life of the resin and also let me go more than a couple days between regenerations (to prevent fouling due to iron).
One concern is I only have enough room for something about the size of another softener resin tank. I don't think I could fit a large contact tank or anything similar in addition to another resin tank.
I was wondering if a cheap bigblue sediment filter would remove the iron causing the red chalky buildup and let the softener remove the rest of the iron as it's doing already? I assume not, as it would not be able to catch dissolved iron which I'm guessing is what I'm dealing with. A glass of unsoftened water does not turn color overnight or get any sediment in the bottom. The only way I can tell we have iron is the smell of the unsoftened water (smells like a box of nails), the red stains in the shower before we had the softener, and the red chalky build up in the softener injector now.
Water details:
My issue now is every couple weeks I have to take apart the top of the Fleck 7000 valve (the injector and little filter basket) and soak it all in iron out because it gets a chalky red iron build up on it. This will eventually plug up the injector so I have to be pretty diligent in keeping it clean. I'd like to figure out what options I have to reduce the iron before the softener in order to extend the life of the resin and also let me go more than a couple days between regenerations (to prevent fouling due to iron).
One concern is I only have enough room for something about the size of another softener resin tank. I don't think I could fit a large contact tank or anything similar in addition to another resin tank.
I was wondering if a cheap bigblue sediment filter would remove the iron causing the red chalky buildup and let the softener remove the rest of the iron as it's doing already? I assume not, as it would not be able to catch dissolved iron which I'm guessing is what I'm dealing with. A glass of unsoftened water does not turn color overnight or get any sediment in the bottom. The only way I can tell we have iron is the smell of the unsoftened water (smells like a box of nails), the red stains in the shower before we had the softener, and the red chalky build up in the softener injector now.
Water details:
Private well 300' deep.
9.8 gpm flow rate.
Lots of sediment, so I have a 100 micron sediment filter between the pressure tank and softener.
Hardness: 10 gpg
Iron: 2.8 ppm
Manganese: .5 ppm
pH: 7.5
TDS: 200
Nitrates: 0
No Coliform or E-Coli
Softener9.8 gpm flow rate.
Lots of sediment, so I have a 100 micron sediment filter between the pressure tank and softener.
Hardness: 10 gpg
Iron: 2.8 ppm
Manganese: .5 ppm
pH: 7.5
TDS: 200
Nitrates: 0
No Coliform or E-Coli
Fleck 7000SXT 64,000 grain softener
2cu ft SST-60 resin
Currently using a ResCare dispenser and sprinkling iron out between each bag of salt.
2cu ft SST-60 resin
Currently using a ResCare dispenser and sprinkling iron out between each bag of salt.
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