Resin Tank Dripping Noise

[Kory]

Recently we lost water below our well pipe in our well and sucked air. Everything is back to normal after pumping the air out but I can hear a dripping noise inside of the Resin Tank about every 2 seconds. I have no idea what it could be.

thanks

 

[LLigetfa]

You have air in your resin tank. A regen should get rid of the air.

 

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[Kory]

You have air in your resin tank. A regen should get rid of the air.

Thanks, it did a regen last week but maybe it needs a couple? I forgot to add our well ran dry and our pump was on for a couple hours sucking air. I had to hook up a pump and try to pump out 400 feet of air and water for a couple days until we got a decent flow back. Does air in there cause a pipe to leak inside?

 

[LLigetfa]

Does air in there cause a pipe to leak inside?

No, it is not a leak, just that the drops of water fall through the air make a dripping sound when they land.

 

[Kory]

No, it is not a leak, just that the drops of water fall through the air make a dripping sound when they land.

I guess I can’t picture what the inside looks like. Just seems like water dripping from high up

 

[LLigetfa]

Water enters at the top and flows down through the resin bed. Normally the top portion of the tank has only water (called freeboard) so that during regen, there is room for the resin to expand. If air gets into the water stream, it gets trapped at the top until a backwash cycle purges it.

 

[Kory]

Water enters at the top and flows down through the resin bed. Normally the top portion of the tank has only water (called freeboard) so that during regen, there is room for the resin to expand. If air gets into the water stream, it gets trapped at the top until a backwash cycle purges it.

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Very helpful thank you