SECTION 2HOWYOURWATERsO rENERWORKS

2B. SOFT WATER SERVICE AND REGENERATION

SERVICE

When the softener is giving you soft water, it is called "Service". During service, hard water

comes from the house main water pipe into the softener. Inside the softener resin tank is a bed

made up of thousands of tiny, plastic resin beads

(FIG. 4). As hard water passes through the bed, each bead attracts and holds the hardness

minerals. This is called ion-exchanging. It is

much like a magnet attracting and holding metals. Water without the hardness minerals

(soft water) flows out of the softener and intothe house soft water pipes.

After a period of time, the resin beads become coated with hardness minerals and they have to be cleaned. This cleaning is called regeneration or recharge. Regeneration isstarted at 2:00 a.m. by the electronic timer (see page 13). It takes place in 5 stages or cycles. These are:

_1

FILL

_ BACKWASH

 

BRINING

151 FAST RINSE

[_]

BRINE RINSE

 

_WATERFLOW THROUGH THE

SOFTENER IN SERVICE

Hard Water

IN

REGENERATION

ITIFILL: Salt, dissolved in water, is called brine. Brine is needed to clean the hardness minerals

from the resin beads. To make the brine, water flows into the salt storage area during the fill stage as shown in FIG. 5. Fill cycle length

depends on how much soft water making capacity you have used since the last regenera- tion. It fillslonger, the more water you have used, and makes more brine. The greater amount of brine cleans more hardness minerals from the resin bed.

WATER FLOW THROUGH THE

)FTENER IN FILL

Hard Water

IN

Soft Water

OUt

Salt

a Tanl_

(salt not shown)

OUT

Bed

Tank

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