Hi everyone! So, I got this problem - my water softener is causing a significant drop in pressure in my house. I'm pretty sure the media may be poo as a result of my negligence in keeping the media clean (I didn't replace the salt nearly as often as I should.)
At any rate, I'm preparing to replace the media (I'm a beginner), but I'm a bit concerned about the sticker on the sweat jacket which indicates it's a 4-stage water softener (I find that claim to be dubious and most 4-stage water softeners I've seen appear to be "salt free" and this deffo has a brine tank) I cannot identify the actual manufacturer of the system itself to figure out what kind and how much media I need to buy, but I *suspect* it's hidden under the sweat jacket. ANYWAY - here is what I know:
1. The control head is a clack WS-1 style. No problem, there.
2. The dimensions of the media tank are 10X54
3. The media tank is shiny and black
4. There is no manufacturer or installer sticker on or inside of the control head display thingo
5. Installation date was Q2 2017 - sticker inside the control head indicates software was revised 10/2016
My question is simply this:
If I remove the head and find out it does indeed have a carbon bed, a KDF bed, AND a resin bed, Can I simply clean all that mess out and just put in the requisite amount (1.5cu ft.) of regular old resin beads (potentially just putting in a standard riser/distributor) or must it absolutely be the multiple types of media already in the tank?
Here's a picture of the sweat jacket (Googling the text on the sticker gives me zero help in the San Antonio area where I am located)
UPDATE: just finished flushing my water heater and found a BUNCH of soft, blue-green sprinkle stuff in it - I suspect that it is indeed a 4 stage system and that it uses KDF-55 and the containment has ruptured, resulting in copper/zinc blobs making it to the water heater). Luckily, it's so heavy it seems to have sunk and, it does not appear to have made it's way into the home as none of the fixtures/faucets are clogged...Thoughts?
I don't know if this project exactly fits this forum but I didn't see anywhere else that it fit better. I had low pH well water (5.2) at our summer cottage. After exploring altenatives I decided to design and build a soda ash injection system to raise the pH. When I was researching this, I didn't find a lot of relevant information so I am posting the information about my research and the design in the attached PDF file for anyone who might be interested. The system I built has been working flawlessly for the past two years,
Hello everyone! I'm new here and I just purchased a house with a water softner system. So awhile back I was farting around with the setting on my system going through them and learning about it. A couple days ago I went to check if my salt was low and noticed that the salt level has not moved and the brine level (water level) is half way up the brine tank. I checked everything on this unit from plugged flow tubes to removing most of the salt and water. I manual regened the system a couple times and notice that it would add water to the brine tank but only take a tiny bit back into the tank. I spent hours trying to diagnose what is wrong I then noticed that in the settings it will not allow to to change the water hardness (skips the step completely) when trying to change settings. Could this be the reason why my salt level has not changed? Is there anyone out there that could help.
Thanks a bunch Trent.
12-13-22, 05:58 PM
...But is it REALLY 4 Stage?!
