Softener Capacity Information
There is a new featured article on the web site which deals with the method for determining the capacity of your water softener for setup and programming purposes. This is not to be confused with sizing a water softener. A water softener’s size depends on the number of people using water, the amount of corrected hardness in your water and your flow rate requirements. The capacity of a softener equates to the amount of water that will pass through it before the media bed is saturated with hardness ions and needs regenerating.
This new article pertains mostly to the Fleck brand of on demand or metered water softeners. It will answer the question that the control valve’s programming is asking for. In order to program in the information that it needs, you will have to know the number of people using water, the amount of corrected hardness of your water (in grains-per-gallon, GPG) and the size of your softener. The best way to determine your water’s corrected hardness is to test it for calcium hardness and iron content. With this information you can simply follow the 4 steps in our setup article and you will have your system capacity answer.
The Fleck service manuals are written for the water treatment professional, so they will not contain information for arriving at this answer. In the past we would get several calls each day from people wanting to know their system capacity, which is not really much trouble to come up with once the above mentioned factors are known. The problem was, most of these folks did not know the answer to those questions. Hopefully, this informational article will help to clear things up for most people.
Sirus Salt-Free Water Softeners
We have a new product out that has been very successful in only its 3rd week of availability. It’s the Sirus salt-free water softener system. As it’s name implies, it softens water without salt. As a matter of fact, it does not require regeneration at all. It contains the new Filtersorb SP media which renders hardness molecules inert and even dissolves any current hardness buildup in water pipes and fixtures. The installation could not be simpler. Water pipe in and water pipe out. Nothing to plug in, no salt tank and no drain to run.
Utilizing an up-flow technology, the water passes through the media and any hardness ions – calcium, lime – are molecularly altered rendering it inert to the point that it will not adhere to any surface. The result is soft water without actually removing or exchanging anything. You will use 50% less soap, laundry will be cleaner, calcium buildup in your pipes will disappear, and it’s actually good for the environment. The Sirus systems are legal even in softener discharge restricted locations because there is no discharge.
Find out all about this new technology. Filtersorb SP is the future of the water treatment industry.
