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so, I dumped some IronOut powder into my salt tank. As life went on, water started to build up in the salt tank. Took off the venturi assembly and cleaned out a little stuff, but it didn't look bad. I cleaned the venturi last year with good success. But this time, no improvement. every time I ran a cycle, ended up with more water in the salt tank.
I found and cleaned the screen in the bottom of the brine tube (#35 on diagram; 7131365). It was gritty with what I assume is undissolved IronOut.
put stuff together and tried more and water still rising, never dropping.
there's enough connecting tube on the brine tube that I can hold it outside the brine tank and run it into a bucket. When I do a manual recharge, I can step through the 4 stages (Fill Brine Backwash Fastrinse). I can hear the control valves move for each stage.
So, on Fill, the water flow is running to fill the salt tank.
on Brine, the water is still running into the salt tank.
on Backwash and Fastrinse the only water flow is to drain.
Isn't the Brine cycle s'posed to pull the salty water from the brine tank through the resin bed?
What should I check next?
I found and cleaned the screen in the bottom of the brine tube (#35 on diagram; 7131365). It was gritty with what I assume is undissolved IronOut.
put stuff together and tried more and water still rising, never dropping.
there's enough connecting tube on the brine tube that I can hold it outside the brine tank and run it into a bucket. When I do a manual recharge, I can step through the 4 stages (Fill Brine Backwash Fastrinse). I can hear the control valves move for each stage.
So, on Fill, the water flow is running to fill the salt tank.
on Brine, the water is still running into the salt tank.
on Backwash and Fastrinse the only water flow is to drain.
Isn't the Brine cycle s'posed to pull the salty water from the brine tank through the resin bed?
What should I check next?