Owner`s manual

REFILLING WITH SALT
If the conditioner uses all the salt before more is added,
hard water will result. Lift the brine tank lid and check
the salt level frequently. The remote can also be used
to monitor salt. It has an optional display, on the sof-
tener status screen, of the estimated number of days
until salt is depleted (“Out of salt in X days”). The sof-
tener can also be programmed to display a Low Salt
Alarm a certain number of days before salt is estimated
to run out (See Page 11).
Be sure that the brinewell cover is on when adding salt.
After adding and leveling salt, always set the salt level
on the electronic controller, as described on Page 11.
NOTE: In humid areas it is best to keep the salt level
less than half full and refill more often.
RECOMMENDED SALT: Cube, pellet, coarse solar,
etc., water conditioner salt is recommended. This type
of salt is high purity evaporated crystals, sometimes
formed and pressed into briquets. It has less than 1%
insoluble (not dissolvable in water) impurities. Clean,
high grade rock salts are acceptable, but may require
frequent brine tank cleaning to remove the “sludge”
residue (insolubles) collecting at the bottom of the tank.
SALT NOT RECOMMENDED: Rock salt high in impuri-
ties, block, granulated, table, ice melting, or ice cream
making salts, etc., are not recommended.
SALT WITH IRON REMOVING ADDITIVE: Some salts
have an additive to help a water conditioner handle iron
in the water supply. Although this may help keep the
resin bed clean, it may also release corrosive fumes
that will weaken and shorten the life of some EcoWater
Systems conditioner electronic parts. Iron Out salt is
safe to use on two-tank models.
ECOWATER
SYSTEMS
Service Information
BREAKING A SALT BRIDGE
Sometimes a hard crust or salt “bridge” forms in the
brine tank. This is usually caused by high humidity or
the wrong kind of salt. When the salt bridges, an empty
space forms between the water and the salt. Then salt
will not dissolve in the water to make brine. Without
brine, the resin bed is not recharged and hard water will
result.
If the storage tank is full of salt, it is difficult to tell
whether there is a salt bridge. A bridge may be under-
neath loose salt. The following is the best way to check
for a salt bridge:
Salt should be loose all the way to the bottom of the
tank. Hold a broom handle, or like tool, up to the sof-
tener, as shown in Figure 128. Make a pencil mark on
the handle 1” - 2” below the top of the rim. Then, care-
fully push it straight down into the salt. If a hard object
is felt before the pencil mark is even with the top, it is
most likely a salt bridge. Carefully push into the bridge
in several places to break it. Do not try to break the
salt bridge by pounding on the outside of the salt
tank. You may damage the tank.
FIG. 128
1” - 2”
Pencil Mark
Broom
Handle
Push tool into
salt bridge
to break
Water Level
Empty Space
Salt Bridge
Salt
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