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AUTOMATIC WATER CONDITIONER
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SANITIZING PROCEDURES
Care is taken at the factory to keep your water soft-
ener clean and sanitary. Materials used to make the
softener will not infect or contaminate your water
supply, and will not cause bacteria to form or grow.
However, during shipping, storage, installing and
operating, bacteria could get into the softener. For
this reason, sanitizing as follows is suggested
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when installing.
1.
Be sure to complete all installation steps, includ-
ing timer programming.
2.
Pour about 21 gr of common 5.25% household
bleach (Clorox, Linco, Bo Peep, White Sail, Eagle,
etc.,) into the brinewell (figure 3, page 8).
3.
Use the REGENERATE, OR RECHARGE, NOW
feature, on the timer, to start an immediate regen-
eration. The bleach is drawn into and through the
water softener to sanitize it. This sanitizing regen-
eration is over in about 2 hours. Then, soft water is
available for your use.
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NOTE: Sanitizing is recommended by the water Quality Asso-
ciation for disinfecting. On some water supplies, they suggest
periodic sanitizing.
NOTE: When the above sanitizing regeneration is over, your house COLD water supply is fully
soft immediately. However, your water heater is filled with hard water and, as hot water is
used, it will refill with soft water. When all the hard water is replaced, in the water heater, hot
only, and mixed hot and cold water will be fully soft. If you want totally soft water immediately,
after the above regeneration, drain the water heater until the water runs cold. If you do drain
the water heater,
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