Pre- Installation
1. If you are going to be turning off the water to the house and you have an electric water heater, shut off the
power to the water heater before beginning installation in case water heater is accidentally drained.
2. Pick a suitable location for your filter system on a dry level spot where it won’t be exposed to freezing
temperatures. A minimum of 20 PSI is required. Maximum pressure is 90 PSI.
3. Get all of your plumbing parts together before beginning installation. After installation the filter must be
allowed to run through a complete backwash and rinse cycle.
4. After the system is installed and running, your water may be discolored, or full of sediment or rust,
particularly if this is older or corroded piping. Typically this clears up over a day or two.
Best Practices for Piping & Drain Installation
1. See typical installation for well water. (see Fig 2). The filter is installed after the pressure tank. If your water
source is city water, install on the main line coming in to the home so all inside water is filtered. You may have to
rearrange plumbing if you don’t want outside water treated, ie: irrigation, washing vehicles, driveways etc.
2. As you face the Clack WS1 control from the front, the water enters on the right and exits on the left. (Fig 2)
The inlet and outlet are attached to the bypass valve which is marked with arrows as well.
3. Make sure there is a working gate or ball valve before the Clack WS1 filter and also one after as shown in the
diagram Fig 2. A hose bib (which is a faucet that you can attach a garden hose to) is strongly recommended after
the filter before the second ball valve. This makes it easy to rinse your new filter on start‐up and gives you a
place to test the water before it enters your household plumbing.
4. The Clack WS1 pipe fittings are 1" threaded fittings.
5. If you will be using copper piping, do not sweat the copper pipe directly on to the Clack WS1 control valve.
Avoid heating up the control valve plastic.
6. You do not need unions to install your Clack WS1 control. If you need to remove it, the Clack WS1 bypass has
quick‐release couplings that make it easy to put the filter on by‐pass and remove the filter system from the
piping.
7. The drain line tubing (not supplied) is connected to a drain from the drain outlet using flexible ½”ID tubing.
Note that the drain can run up above the Clack WS1 control and into a drain, it does not have to drain down, as
the filter backwashes under line pressure. Plumbing codes require an air‐gap connection, so that if your sewer or
septic tank backs up, it cannot cross connect with drain tubing.
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