Pentair Riversoft, Installer Manual

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Installer Manual Riversoft - Description
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The service and regeneration reaction can be done over and over, so softening systems last years.
A softener consists of different components:
• a tank, filled with softening resin;
• a valve, that will direct the inlet water flow on the resin bed so that the softening or regeneration
reaction can take place;
• a timer, that will control when the regeneration phases have to be done;
• a brine tank, where saturated brine solution is prepared for the regenerations.
The present softener will simply allow the previously described reaction to happen, alternating
softening period of few days with regeneration that may last up to few hours depending on setting
done. The softener is equipped with a controller that will trigger automatically the different phases of
service and regeneration upon the programming done.
The valve configuration has been chosen to be in accordance with the volume of resin contained in the
tank. Do not intend to modify it or you may cause kinetics changes and may cause regeneration
malfunction.
In order to ensure proper softener function, make sure it always contains salt in the brine tank and
remains electrically powered. Softener installation, start up and programming must be done by
trained professional water treatment specialist. Incorrect installation or wrong programming may
cause softener malfunctions or even damage the softener and its components.
Respect programming recommendations for each softener size in order to achieve best optimized
softener performances.
Softener requires periodical cleaning/maintenance operations to ensure proper function over years.
Those are described in the present manual on chapter 8. Maintenance, page 57.