Kenmore 625.3483500 Section, How Your Water Softener Works, Face Plate Timer Features, Error Code

SECTION 2

HOW YOUR WATER SOFTENER WORKS

	2A.	FACE PLATE TIMER FEATURES
RECHARGE NOW Ð If you have guests visiting,			FIG. 5
or other times when you use more water than
usual, you could begin to run out of soft water. If					￿		￿￿￿￿￿￿￿ ￿￿￿￿ ￿￿D D￿￿
the softener is not scheduled to regenerate for				.
another day or 2, you would get hard water until			PM		￿		￿￿C￿￿￿G￿ ￿￿￿￿
			RCHG .
then. If this happens, or you think it might					￿		￿￿C￿￿￿G￿ D￿￿
happen, press and hold in the HOLD5RECHARGE
NOW button ￿ for 3 seconds until RCHG shows.					￿		￿￿￿ ￿ C￿￿￿￿
RCHG will flash in		the display during the					￿￿ ￿ ￿￿￿	￿￿C￿￿￿￿￿
					￿
regeneration, which lasts under 2 hours.							￿￿￿D	￿￿C￿￿￿G￿ ￿￿￿
NOTE:
Avoid using HOT water while the softener
regenerates, because bypass hard water will refill
the water heater (see •Automatic Bypass," page
13).
VACATION Ð The day you leave on vacation, or			WHEN YOU RETURN, press the VACATION,
other long absence, press (DO NOT HOLD IN) the			button again to return the softener to service, and
ON/OFF VACATION button ￿. VAC begins to			the correct time of day in the display. Remember
flash in the display (FIG. 6). The timer will keep			to do this or the softener will not regenerate
time, but the softener will not regenerate to waste			and you will soon have hard water.
water and salt.
			FIG. 6
NOTE:
Whie in VACATION, the softener will go through a					￿	￿￿￿￿￿￿￿ ￿￿￿￿ ￿￿D D￿￿
regeneration if the RECHARGE NOW feature is
					￿		￿￿C￿￿￿G￿ ￿￿￿￿
used (see above).

To shut off the water supply to the softener, use the plumbing bypass valve(s), FIG. 16, page 21.

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￿￿C￿￿￿G￿ D￿￿

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￿￿￿D	￿￿C￿￿￿G￿ ￿￿￿

ERROR CODE
An error code could appear in the face plate
display if a problem occurs in the softener	Continued
electronics. If you see an error code instead of the
present time of day, please call you local Sears
Service Department for service.

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