SECTION 1 WATERSOFTENERSTAnT-UP
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1C. PROGRAM THE TIMER
2. SET WATER HARDNESS NUMBER:
• Press the SELECT button once to display
15 (flashing) and HARDNESS.
The grains per gallon (gpg)
hardness of your water supply is
on your water analysis report.
Be sure to enter water test
results on page 2, for future reference.
NOTE:
If your water supply contains iron, compensate
for it by adding to the water hardness number.
For example, assume your water is 15 gpg hard
and contains 2 pprn iron. Add 5 to the hardness
number for each I ppm of iron. In this example,
you would use 25 foryour hardness number.
15 gpg hardness
2 ppm iron x 5 = 10 +10
(times) 25 HARDNESS NUMBER
• Press the _UP/DOWN _outtons to set your
water hardness number in the display. The
DOWN button moves the display to 1. The UP
button moves the display to the highest setting
(see maximum setting for your model in the
specifications).
NOTE:
Each press ofthe UP/DOWN buttonchanges the
display by I between 1 and 25. Between 25 and
the highest number, the display changes 5 at a
time...25, 30, 35, etc. Holding the UP or DOWN
button inchanges the displaytwice each second.
3. SET RECHARGE (REGENERATION) TIME:
• Press the SELECT button once to display
2:00 AM (flashing) and RECHARGE TIME.
At the 2:00 AM RECHARGE i
TIME setting, the softener be- _._,_t_,._.
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ginsregeneration (see pages 11 "=_=P_,_"
and 12) at 2:00 AM, ending no
later than 4:00 AM. This is a good time in most
households because water is not being used
(see AUTOMATIC BYPASS, page 13). If a
different RECHARGE TIME setting would be
better for your household, do the following.
• Press the {_UP/DOWN _buttons to set the
desired RECHARGE starting hour. Be sure to
observe the AM-PM as you did when setting the
present time of day.
NOTE:
Each press of the UP/DOWN buttons changes
the display 1 hour. Holding the buttons in
changes the display twice each second.
• PRESS THE SELECT BUTTON ONCE
AGAIN, to returnthe present time (steady) of day
an RECHARGE TONIGHT in the display.
4. SET"CLEAN"FEATURE:
• PresstheSELECTbuttonag_n.Thedi_
play _tem_ss between "CLEAn", and
"OFF" _efau_.
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When set to "CLEAn"/"ON", a backwash is as-
sured after every 500 gallons of water usage.
Backwash is described on page 12. This clean-
ing backwash is in addition tothe backwash dup
ing recharge. If you have ironinthe water supply,
or higher amounts of sediments (sand, siR,dirt,
etc.) you should set this feature to ON.
• To set to ON, ortoturn off if already on, press
either the UP or DOWN button once. The length
of this extra backwash is 1 minute (defaulttime
setting).
SEE PAGE 10 FOR OTHER FACE PLATE TIMER FEATURES.
IMPORTANT: Salt is used to recharge the mlneral In your water softener...see page 9. Before
shlpplng, the mineral Is factory pretreated with sail Before using water from this softener, be
sure to do the sanitizing procedures and start a recharge (page 8), to flush salt from It.
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