Water Softener
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20. Turn ON the gas or electric supply to the water heater.
21. Remove the brine tank cover and add salt into the tank. Use pellet or coarse solar salt with a purity of 99.5%
or higher. DO NOT use granular, and ice cream-making salts, or salt with iron removing additives. Keep the
cabinet cover closed unless servicing or refilling with salt.
22. Connect electrical power by plugging the transformer into a (120 volt) outlet.
Figure 5
23. With the valve
In Service
, manually initiate a regeneration as the final installation step. This regeneration
will:
a) Fill the brine tank with the appropriate amount of water for the 1st regeneration
b) Complete the final flushing and conditioning of the water softener.
c)
Re-classify the resin bed if the bed was disturbed during shipping.
