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B. 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. 5). As
hard water passes through the bed, each bead at-
tracts and holds the hardness minerals. This is
called
minerals (soft water) flows out of the softener and
into the house soft water pipes.After a period of
time, the resin beads hold all of the hardness miner-
als they can, and deaning with salt brine is needed.
This cleaning is called regeneration or recharge. Re-
generation is started at 2:00 a.m. by the electronic timer (see page
REGENERATION
[] FILL: Salt, dissolved in water, is called brine.
Brine is needed to dean 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. 6. Fil! cycle length depends on how much soft water making capacity you have used since the
last regeneration. As you use more water, fill time
increases so more brine is made. The greater
amount of brine deans more hardness minerals from the resin bed.
Water Flow Through
the Softener in Fill
soft water hard water
OUT IN
I | ILL | i BACKWASH |
| BRINING | FAST RINSE |
[] | BRINE RINSE |
|
Note:
If the Clean feature is set to ON, additional back- wash and fast rinse cycles occur before the fill cycle.
Water Flow Through
the Softener in Service
soft water hard water
OUT IN
salt storage tank (salt
brine valve
\ | resin tank |
| |
| resin bed |
salt storage
tank
brine valve
\
\
fill water
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