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Morton
®
Water Softener Installation & Operation Manual
FIG. 34
Broom
Handle
Pencil
Mark
1” - 2”
Salt
Salt
Bridge
Water
Level
Push Tool into
Salt Bridge to
Break
Refilling with Salt
Lift the salt lid and check the salt storage level fre-
quently. If the water softener uses all the Morton
®
Clean and Protect
™
or Clean and Protect
™
Plus Rust
Defense
™
Pellets before you refill it, you will experi-
ence 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:
We recommend using Morton
®
Clean and Protect
™
or Clean and Protect
™
Plus Rust
Defense
™
Pellets in the familiar yellow bag. For soft
water, nothing works harder. Guaranteed
®
.
Salt Not Recommended:
Rock salt, high in impuri-
ties, block, granulated, table, ice melting, ice cream
making salts, etc., are not recommended.
Salt with Iron Removing Additives:
Some salts
have an additive to help a water conditioner handle
iron in a water supply. For this we recommend
Morton
®
Rust Remover Super Pellets
®
in the green bag.
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 softener. Measure the distance
from the floor to the rim of the water softener. Then,
carefully 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.
Carefully push into the bridge in several places to
break it. Do not use any sharp or pointed 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.
Routine Maintenance
Power Outage Memory
If electrical power to the softener is interrupted, the
time display is blank, but the electronic controller
keeps correct time for several hours. When power is
restored, you must reset the present time only if the
display is flashing. All other settings are maintained
and never require resetting unless a change is
desired. If the time is flashing after a long power out-
age, the softener continues to work as it should to
provide you with soft water. However, regenerations
may occur at the wrong time of day until you reset the
clock to the correct time of day.
NOTE:
If the water softener was regenerating when
power was lost, it will now finish the cycle.
Customizing
Features / Options
