Kenmore 625.38825 owner manual Tank with Salt, Water Softening Salt with Iron Removing

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ElFILL THE STORAGE

Brine (salt dissolved in water) is needed for each and

every regeneration. The water for nraking brine is nre- tered into the salt storage tank by the softener. Howev- el; you nrust keep salt in the tank, but it is not necessary to keep it full. In humid areas, it is best to fill the stor- age tank one quarter to one half full, and to refill it nrore often. Salt bridging (see page 3-1) occurs nrore

often when conditions are hunrid.

Fill the tank with NUGGET or PELLET water softener

salt. DO NOT use rock salts, as they have dirt and sedi- nrents that wilt stop the softener front working.

Before filling, be sure the brinewell cover is in place on the top of the brinewett. Salt storage capacity is shown on page 4-1. Be sure to set the salt monitor system (see page 2-1).

Note: The salt nronitor system, page 2-1, is calibrated to the density of nugget or pellet water softener salt.

The nronitor will not work as accurately with other

types of salt including rock and solar.

If you choose Potassiunr Chloride (KC1) as a regener-

ant, following these suggestions will help give you

years of nraintenance free service.

1)Place only one bag of KC1 in your softener at a tinre (the salt storage tank should contain no nrore than 60 pounds of KC1 at any one tinre).

2)A softener using KC1 should not be placed in areas

with tenrperature fluctuations and high hunridity

(KC1 wilt harden in these environnrents and nray nrake the softener inoperable).

3)Check the brine tank and brine well (black tube in

salt storage tank) nronthly. If hardening is present,

pour snralt anrounts of warnr water on hardened areas until they loosen.

4)If your softener does not have a KC1 salt setting you nrust increase your hardness setting by 25% to ensure

continuous soft water as in exanrple below.

Raw Water	Hardenss	Softener setting when
(grains per	gallon)	using	KC1
5 gpg		7 gpg
10 gpg		13	gpg
15gpg		19	gpg
20 gpg		25	gpg
		x 25 % =
25gpg		32gpg

TANK WITH SALT

WATER SOFTENING SALT WITH IRON REMOVING

ADDITIVES -- Sonre salts have an additive to help the softener handle iron in the water supply. These salts

nray be used if your water supply has a high iron con-

tent. It is reconmrended to use Sears Resin Bed Clean-

er 42- 34426, for periodic treatnrents to keep your resin bed clean.

brinewell cover

brinewell

salt

storage

tank

Sodium information: Water softeners using sodiunr

chloride for regeneration add sodiunr to the water.

Persons who are on sodiunr restricted diets should

consider the added sodiunr as part of their overall so- diunr intake. For example, if your water supply is 15 grains hard, you would have to drink 3 quarts of soft-

ened water to consunre 335 nritligranrs of sodiunr.

That is equivalent to eating2-1/2 slices of white bread.

30

gpg

38gpg

Persons

who are concerned

about their drinking water

should

consider

a Kennrore

Drinking

Water

Systenr

35gpg

44gpg

that wilt renrove or reduce in excess of 90% of the so-

40

gpg

50 gpg

diunr and other

drinking

water

contanrinants.

You

have

now finished

the

water

softener

start

up.

After the

sanitizing

recharge,

on

page

i - 5,

the soft-

ener

will be giving

you

soft

water.

Please read

pages

2 - 4, 2 -

5 and 2

- 6 in section

2 to understand

how

the

softener

works

to

continue

to

give you

soft

water.

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