Water Softener Control Valve Diagram
The piping around a water softener can be confusing when attempting to learn how to install a water softener.
Water softener control valve diagram. With a conventional cation exchange water softener the house water supply pipe is connected to a control valve and timer at the top of the resin tank. The control valve can be set to regenerate on demand consumption of a predetermined amount of water and or as a time clock passage of a particular number of days. As shown in the diagram below a typical water softener has a resin or mineral tank a brine tank and some type of control. Beware of buying a fleck water softener on amazon.
In most instances a water softener is located near the point where the water supply enters the house and is installed so it treats the water used for drinking cooking and washing but not the water. The elbows would slip into your kinetico control valve. Fleck has led the way for more than 50 years in advancing control valve technology. The manual is designed to aid water treatment equipment manufacturers in the selection of the various control valve options.
This fits mach series kinetico softeners only. Aqt 56 powerflo series con t ro l va lves service manual table of contents products checking list 3 general residential installation check list 4 aqt 56st softener timer control valve start up procedures 5 aqt 56ft filter timer control valve start up procedures 6 aqt 56sm meter control valve start up procedures 7 water conditioner flow diagrams 8 aqt 56st softener time control valve drive. It s standard procedure to branch off one cold water line to supply outdoor hose connections and sometimes another to the kitchen sink and. Openings are oring fit and about 1 3 4 inches across.
A kinetico water softener will provide your family with abundant clean safe water on demand. Ws1 1 25 control valve series model. Water softeners and backwashing filters that utilize the proven reliability of the fleck valve. Downfl ow softener using standard mesh synthetic cation exchange media regenerating with sodium chloride.
Water specialist ws1 and ws1 25 drawings service manual 1 control valve series model. A cold water branch before the water softener doesn t necessarily indicate a problem. The control valve is the device that controls the flow of water into and out of the mineral and brine tanks during regeneration. Ws1 25 this manual is about a control valve to be used on water softeners or water filters.