Sears 625.34842 owner manual Out0

SECTION 2

.ow YOUR WATER SOFTENER WORKS

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2B. SOFT WATER SERVICE AND REGENERATION

EZ]BRINING: During brining, the brine is moved from the salt storage area, into the resin tank. Inside

the resin tank, brine cleans hardness minerals from

the resin beads and they are discharged out the

drain. How much brine is needed to clean the resin

depends on:

--the amount of resin in the softener,

--how fast the brine goes through the bed.

WATER FLOW THROUGH THE SOFTENER IN BACKWASH

hard	water,	hard water
bypass	OUT t	! IN
	(:_	drain

The nozzle and venturi (FIG. 6) make suction to move brine from the salt tank into the resin tank.

They keep the brine flow down tO a veI3r slow rate tO

get the best resin cleaning with the least salt.

[] BRINE RINSE: After all of the brine is sucked OUt of the salt tank, the brine valve closes. Water keeps

flowing through the resin tank the same way it did

during brining except the brine flow has stopped.

Hardness minerals and brine flush from the resin tank to the drain. Brining and brine rinse together vary in length of time they take, relative to the fill cycle length.

WATER FLOW THROUGH THE

SOFTENER IN BRINING AND

BRINE RINSE

hard water hard water

bypass OUT t ! IN nozzle &

venturi

drain

brine valve

resin bed lifted and expanded

E_]FAST RINSE: Backwash is followed by a fast flow of water down through the resin tank. The fast flow packs the resin bed and gets it ready for return to service (FIG. 8).

After fast rinse, the softener returns tO service. Hard water goes into the resin tank where the resin bed

again takes out the hardness minerals. Soft water goes to the house soft water pipes.

WATER FLOW THROUGH THE

SOFTENER IN FAST RINSE

soft water	hard water
out0	I '"
	drain

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brine

[]BACKWASH: During backwash, water flows UP

through the resin tank (FIG. 7) at a fast rate to flush

iron minerals, dirt and sediments from the bed and tO

the drain. The bed lifts and expands for good cleaning.

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