17
Features / Options
POWER OUTAGE MEMORY
If electrical power to the water treatment system is
lost, “memory'' built into the timer circuitry will keep all
settings for several hours. While the power is out, the
display is blank and the system will not regenerate.
When electrical power is restored, the following will
occur.
You have to reset the present time only if the display
is flashing. The HARDNESS and RECHARGE TIME
never require resetting unless a change is desired.
Even if the clock is incorrect after a long power out-
age, the system operates as it should to keep your
water soft. However, regenerations may occur at the
wrong time of day until you reset the clock to the cor-
rect time of day.
NOTE:
If the water treatment system was regenerat-
ing when power was lost, it will now finish the
cycle.
Routine Maintenance
ADDING SALT
Lift the salt lid and check the salt storage level fre-
quently. If the water treatment system uses all the salt
before you refill it, you will experience hard water.
Until you have established a refilling routine, check the
salt every two or three weeks. Always add if less than
1/4 full. Be sure the brinewell cover is on.
NOTE:
In humid areas, it is best to keep the salt stor-
age level lower, and to refill more often to
avoid salt “bridging”.
Recommended Salt:
Nugget, pellet or coarse solar
salts with less than 1% impurities.
Salt Not Recommended:
Rock salt, high in impurities,
block, granulated, table, ice melting, ice cream making
salts, etc.
BREAKING A SALT BRIDGE
Sometimes, a hard crust or salt “bridge” forms in the
brine tank. It 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 if
you have a salt bridge. A bridge may be underneath
loose salt. Take a broom handle, or like tool, and hold
it next to the water treatment system. Measure the
distance from the floor to the rim of the water treat-
ment system. Then, gently push the broom handle
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. Gently push into the bridge in sev-
eral places to break it. Do not use any sharp or point-
ed objects as you may puncture the brine tank. Do not
try to break the salt bridge by pounding on the outside
of the salt tank. You may damage the tank.
FIG. 34
Broom
Handle
Pencil
Mark
3 - 5 cm
Salt
Salt
Bridge
Water
Level
Push Tool into
Salt Bridge to
Break
