Watersoft, Inc softner

[ortiesdad]

I just purchased a home and it has a Watersoft, Inc softner installed. First off, I've know nothing at all about water softners. On the back of the unit, it has 'salt setting 15lb', catalog #AS32TP, Serial # 0303991-6. Anyone know where I can get the literature for this unit? Any idea how in the heck it works. There is a big, blue tub that has a little bit of water in the bottom....

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Dave

[nomind]

The big tub is what contains the brine that periodically cleans your unit. The brine is made by adding salt into the tub. The tub should usually be about 1/2 full of salt just covered by water. When the unit auto cleans, Usually 2-3 times a week) it will suck brine out of the tub to clean the media in the tank. After a cleaning cycle this brine is ejected down a pipe to the drain and more water is pumped into the brine tank to refill it. Where the service pipe enters the unit there will be a valve handle usually saying 'Service' or 'Bypass'. Somewhere on the front or top is a controller that can take many forms. This is where you set your cleaning time and adjust for amount of usage.
This is a complex unit, I would get the manual before touching it.
Good luck with it, :cool:

[Gary Slusser]

IIRC, Amtrol bought them a few years ago. try
www.amtrol.com

Gary
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[ortiesdad]

I've visited the website and requested a manual. Can you explain to me how this works though? What kind of salt do I put in the tub? Where is it purchased? How to I put water in the tub? Again, I have no idea about one of these......

Thanks,

Dave

[nomind]

You get conditioning salt, usually at your local farm feed store. there are different grades, and #2 is generally a good place to start. Here it cost 6.99 a 50 lb bag. For a start put 2 bags in the brine tank and cover it with water with hose or bucket. (This is NOT how it's supposed to work, as I said earlier, the filter should refill the brine tank, but apparently you have a fault which can't be resolved till you get the manual.) :cool:

[Gary Slusser]

To tell you how it works you have to know what control valve you have. Do a search for softeners and look at pictures to see if you see yours.

As to how a softener works:
www.kenmorewater.com/animations/animations.html

Gary
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