WATER SOFTENER START-UP
SECTION 1
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1D. SANITIZING THE WATER SOFTENERCare is taken at the factory to keep your water
softener clean and sanitary. Materials used to make
thesoftener will not infect or contaminate your water
supply, and will not cause bacteria to form or grow.
However, during shipping, storage, installing and
operating, bacteria could get into the softener. For
thisreason, sanitizing as follows is suggested①when
installing.
1.The first time you sanitize your softener,be sure
to do steps in the installation manual, and on
pages 5, 6 and 7 of this manual first.
2.Liftthe salt hole cover and use a pail or hose to fill
the salt storage tank with at least 3 gallons of
water.
3.Remove the brinewell cover (FIG. 3) and pour
about 3/4 ounce of common 5.25% household
bleach(Clorox, Linco, BoPeep, White Sail, Eagle,
etc.) in the softener brinewell.
4.Press the ON/OFFĆHOLD button and hold for 3
seconds to start a recharge. This first recharge
does several things.
Ċ Itdraws the bleach into and through the softĆ
ener to sanitize it.
Ċ It fills the salt tank to the water level needed.
Ċ It gets all the air out of the resin tank.
Ċ Itmakes the resin bed (see page 11) ready for
service.
NOTES:
This recharge takes about 2 hours.
If the CLEAN feature is set to ON, a cleaning
backwash will occur first (CLEAN and Bkwsh or
Rinseflashes in the display), before the sanitizing
recharge. Recharge takes about 2 hours and 15
minutes when the clean feature is on.
Youcan sanitize the softener
salt in the storage tank.
FIG. 2 ADD WATER
Water,
About 3 Gallons
Brinewell
Cover
(remove and add
about 3/4 oz. bleach)
Brinewell
hose
Salt Hole
Cover
①Recommended by the Water Quality Association. On
somewater supplies, the water softener may need periĆ
odic disinfecting.