Kenmore 425 owner manual Salt Adding Salt to Storage TANK, Salt Bridge

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CARE OF YOUR WATER SOFTENER

A. SALT: ADDING SALT TO STORAGE TANK, SALT BRIDGE

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WHEN TO ADD SALT: The Salt

Monitor System (see page 2-1) will turn the low salt light on to warn you when to refill with add salt. Check for a low salt light a few weeks after you install the

softener, and every week after that. Add salt at about the #2 salt

monitor level. At this level, the

tank is about 1/3 full (see note on page 1-6). Never let the softener use all the salt before refilling. With- out salt, you will soon have hard water. After filling, reset the Salt Monitor System, page 2-1.

Note:

You will have a loss in softening capacity and may get partly hard water if less than 10 inches (salt mon- itor level 2) of salt is in the storage tank.

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PLEASE SEE PAGE 1-6 FOR DIRECTIONS ON ADDING SALT.

BE SURE TO RESET THE SALT MONITOR, PAGE 2-1.

SALT BRIDGE

Sometimes, a hard crust or salt bridge forms in the

salt storage tank. It is usually caused by high hu-

midity or the wrong kind of salt. When the salt

bridges, an empty space forms between the water and salt. Then salt will not dissolve (melt) in the wa- ter to make brine. Without brine, the resin bed does

not regenerate and you will have hard water.

If the storage tank is full of salt, it is hard to tell if you have a salt bridge. Salt is loose on top, but the bridge is under it. The following is the best way to check for a salt bridge.

Salt should be loose all the way to the bottom of the tank. Hold a broom handle, or like tool, up to the softener as shown in FIG. 10. Make a pencil mark on the handle, 1" or 2" below the top height of the rim.

Then, carefully push it straight down into the salt. If a hard object is felt before the pencil mark gets to the top of the tank, it's most likely a salt bridge.

Carefully push into the bridge in a few places to

break it. Do not try to break the salt bridge by

pounding on the outside of the salt tank. You may

damage the tank.

If the wrong kind of salt made the bridge, take it out. Then fill the tank with nugget or pellet salt only.

Salt Bridge

push tool into salt bridge to

pencil mark

broom handle

salt

salt bridge

water level

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