Otto Mation
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Hi all, first post. I have very hard well water and have the particulars from the report listed below.
I have a Fleck 2510 with a 3210 timer. My resin tank is big, 16" in diameter by 66" tall to the threads at the top. Shining a light through the tank, I see resin up to 44" from the bottom of the tank.. My brine tank holds over 800 lbs of salt. I currently have it regenerating at every 800 gallons but the water is still hard and causes scale on the faucets. No lather in the soap. I am not using a lot of salt which is my concern. I finally figured out where the pins I saw others talking about on the timer wheel. I think that I need to adjust those. I doubt seriously that they were ever changed from how they rolled out of the factory. Can someone offer a suggestion of how to change the pins so that I get more salt through that huge tank during regeneration? We have an RO system for the water going into the kitchen for cooking and drinking. Oddly, I get quite a bit of scale on the water faucet for the RO water also but I have tested it (the RO water) with a test strip and it shows 0 hardness. The same test strip on the softened water is hard to tell but probably more than 250. Hach kit that is on the way will tell me more.
TDS = 4918.
Total hardness as CaCO3 = 2260.
Calcium, as Ca =520
Magnesium, as Mg = 233
Sodium and or Potassium = 774
Sulfate, as SO4 = 1970
Chloride, as Cl = 1235
Iron, as Fe = 0.15
All in Mg per liter.
Thanks for any advice in advance.
Edit: I guess it might be helpful to include a shot of what my current pin arrangement looks like. What am I looking at here:
I have a Fleck 2510 with a 3210 timer. My resin tank is big, 16" in diameter by 66" tall to the threads at the top. Shining a light through the tank, I see resin up to 44" from the bottom of the tank.. My brine tank holds over 800 lbs of salt. I currently have it regenerating at every 800 gallons but the water is still hard and causes scale on the faucets. No lather in the soap. I am not using a lot of salt which is my concern. I finally figured out where the pins I saw others talking about on the timer wheel. I think that I need to adjust those. I doubt seriously that they were ever changed from how they rolled out of the factory. Can someone offer a suggestion of how to change the pins so that I get more salt through that huge tank during regeneration? We have an RO system for the water going into the kitchen for cooking and drinking. Oddly, I get quite a bit of scale on the water faucet for the RO water also but I have tested it (the RO water) with a test strip and it shows 0 hardness. The same test strip on the softened water is hard to tell but probably more than 250. Hach kit that is on the way will tell me more.
TDS = 4918.
Total hardness as CaCO3 = 2260.
Calcium, as Ca =520
Magnesium, as Mg = 233
Sodium and or Potassium = 774
Sulfate, as SO4 = 1970
Chloride, as Cl = 1235
Iron, as Fe = 0.15
All in Mg per liter.
Thanks for any advice in advance.
Edit: I guess it might be helpful to include a shot of what my current pin arrangement looks like. What am I looking at here:
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