SECTION 1

WATER SOFTENER START-UP

1D. SANITIZING THE WATER SOFTENER

Care is taken at the factory to keep your water softener clean and sanitary. Materials used to make the softener 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 this reason, sanitizing as follows is suggested① when 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. Lift the 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/OFF￿HOLD button and hold for 3 seconds to start a recharge. This first recharge does several things.

:It draws the bleach into and through the soft9 ener to sanitize it.

:It fills the salt tank to the water level needed.

:It gets all the air out of the resin tank.

:It makes 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 Rinse flashes in the display), before the sanitizing recharge. Recharge takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes when the clean feature is on.

You can sanitize the softener w￿￿￿ ￿￿ w￿￿￿￿ ￿u￿ salt in the storage tank.

①Recommended by the Water Quality Association. On some water supplies, the water softener may need peri9 odic disinfecting.

FIG. 2 ADD WATER

Salt Hole

Cover

hose

Brinewell

Cover

(remove and add

about 3/4 oz. bleach)

Brinewell

Water,

About 3 Gallons

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625.34857, 625.34859 specifications

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