2.5 cubic feet of softener with Fleck 5810SXT newly installed today.
The company gave procedure - Add 1/2 bag of salt ( no mentioned what size bag) and 3 gallons of water, wait for 1 hour and then force regeneration. When we added our usual bag's half with 3 gallons of water, the water was above the salt.
We are not sure whether during 60 minutes of Brine Draw , how much of that 3 gallons of Brine should be gone into the softener. We did not feel any low level of Brine in the tank. Visually it was not going down. The output line of softener into my sump pit had constant air bubbles when the Brine Draw cycle was going on and I tasted a bit ( sorry if I shouldn't be doing that). The Brine in the tank is extremely salty and the softener exit water was hardly any salty.
With this observation and the fact that we did not see Brine level going down, is there a reason to think Brine is not getting drawn.
Now at the end of everything, the valve has added lots of water in the brine tank. I would say approx 10 gallons or so. Procedure told to put a setting of 20 for 2.5 cubic feet for Brine refill. Now the 1/2 bag salt is just sitting at the bottom.
How do I ensure on a new softener if Brine Draw is working as it should.
How much Salt to add in the Tank now?
The company gave procedure - Add 1/2 bag of salt ( no mentioned what size bag) and 3 gallons of water, wait for 1 hour and then force regeneration. When we added our usual bag's half with 3 gallons of water, the water was above the salt.
We are not sure whether during 60 minutes of Brine Draw , how much of that 3 gallons of Brine should be gone into the softener. We did not feel any low level of Brine in the tank. Visually it was not going down. The output line of softener into my sump pit had constant air bubbles when the Brine Draw cycle was going on and I tasted a bit ( sorry if I shouldn't be doing that). The Brine in the tank is extremely salty and the softener exit water was hardly any salty.
With this observation and the fact that we did not see Brine level going down, is there a reason to think Brine is not getting drawn.
Now at the end of everything, the valve has added lots of water in the brine tank. I would say approx 10 gallons or so. Procedure told to put a setting of 20 for 2.5 cubic feet for Brine refill. Now the 1/2 bag salt is just sitting at the bottom.
How do I ensure on a new softener if Brine Draw is working as it should.
How much Salt to add in the Tank now?