Charlie Bosco
Active Member
I am finally dialing in my water service and now I have reason to believe I am overdosing my Softener.
I have a Kinetico 2060S and the Brine Tank was set at J which is 4.4lbs of Salt from what I can gather from the manual. Then there was a #4 Disc in it which according to the 2060 documentation that covers me for up to 38 grains. My setting at 4.4lbs should give me about 17,600 grains? So if I was using 38 grains I would need to backwash each time I used about 463 gallons? Am I in the ballpark?
A recent water test showed 305 mg/l on my hardness which is 17.8 grains. Wow that's less than half of the existing setting. To make matters more confusing, the Health Metric hardness test strips I got are barely registering 3 grains from untreated water. They only confirm 0 gpg with the softener water. if that is true then I am way over on the salt and disc setting. Also you cannot back up to a lesser setting on the brine tank so there is that.
I just ordered a Hach 5-B Hardness test kit to get a much more accurate reading as suggested here. Assuming I do need to back down how do I deal with the J setting in the brine tank? Do I just leave that and simply lower the Meter disc closer match my actual grains? And benefit from more gallons before I need a BW?
I really want to dial this thing in because at the current rate I am going through 240lbs of salt every 2 months!
For the record, a lot of that was because I stupidly had my Katalox and Carbon tank backwashing with softened water. I have since changed their positions.
I have a Kinetico 2060S and the Brine Tank was set at J which is 4.4lbs of Salt from what I can gather from the manual. Then there was a #4 Disc in it which according to the 2060 documentation that covers me for up to 38 grains. My setting at 4.4lbs should give me about 17,600 grains? So if I was using 38 grains I would need to backwash each time I used about 463 gallons? Am I in the ballpark?
A recent water test showed 305 mg/l on my hardness which is 17.8 grains. Wow that's less than half of the existing setting. To make matters more confusing, the Health Metric hardness test strips I got are barely registering 3 grains from untreated water. They only confirm 0 gpg with the softener water. if that is true then I am way over on the salt and disc setting. Also you cannot back up to a lesser setting on the brine tank so there is that.
I just ordered a Hach 5-B Hardness test kit to get a much more accurate reading as suggested here. Assuming I do need to back down how do I deal with the J setting in the brine tank? Do I just leave that and simply lower the Meter disc closer match my actual grains? And benefit from more gallons before I need a BW?
I really want to dial this thing in because at the current rate I am going through 240lbs of salt every 2 months!
For the record, a lot of that was because I stupidly had my Katalox and Carbon tank backwashing with softened water. I have since changed their positions.