Water Softener

[Jim Martin]

Anyone have a DI unit in their truck? Or the "water stick"?

@LanceInAz

 

[floorguy]

Here is how I do it:

Get a 5 gallon bucket and ad about 1/4 full of rock salt. Let sit for several hours before using.
Put transfer pump on top and put supply of transfer pump to the water softener inlet and feed the discharge side back into the bucket..... Cycle, cycle, cycle

Get rid of salt water and cycle a bucket or two of clean water, discharge this water and do not run back in..

that sounds like more of a pain then just filling with salt and letting it run fro the 15 min

 

[Dan]

that sounds like more of a pain then just filling with salt and letting it run fro the 15 min

not at all, especially if you have it set up on quick connects or garden hose fittings.

 

[Russ T.]

I've got a big blue one in my Cleanco. Ive never serviced it or any other water softener. Pretty sure it's doing nothing for me right now. I want to do a proper descale and recharge soon to get ready for Spring.

I thought I remembered Jim or someone saying we should reverse the water flow through the softener for @ 15 minutes, then fill with salt???

Is it just the crystals I get for our home softener?

...still a hack in some ways.

 

[Dan]

some say reverse. Some say normal. To me your getting it refined either way. Use a water hardness test kit to check.

 

[Lance Golden]

Anyone have a DI unit in their truck? Or the "water stick"?

I run Reverse Osmosis/DI to a small FW tank. What do you need to know? RO on the wall, prefilters are behind the FW tank, then I run thru 2 4x20 DI cartridges.

 

[GeneMiller]

Did the 870 come originally with the separate filter box. They changed that to the filter inside the waste tank. That's similar to my thermal wave. Makes more sense. I'll be keeping my old filter box.

Gene

 

[Jim Martin]

I would like to get one of those filter boxes for my 570...
I like the one that is on my thermal wave bether then adding a in line filter.....

 

[GeneMiller]

I customized it to fit the bumper. Definitely staying. The inside is pretty worn but should last a few more years
Then maybe I'll get a plastic one from johnshotheatexchangers.

Gene

 

[Lance Golden]

Hey, I was bragging about my awesome RO/DI setup...
What the...
I asked for this, specific from Thom... I love it tho... No filter in the waste tank...

 

[Lance Golden]

Oh and @Jim Martin it is awesome for 4td... just saying...

 

[floorguy]

I've got a big blue one in my Cleanco. Ive never serviced it or any other water softener. Pretty sure it's doing nothing for me right now. I want to do a proper descale and recharge soon to get ready for Spring.

I thought I remembered Jim or someone saying we should reverse the water flow through the softener for @ 15 minutes, then fill with salt???

Is it just the crystals I get for our home softener?

...still a hack in some ways.

you should reverse it every other time i think the paper said....mixes the resin beads back up, other wise the water just creates channels and doesnt run over any thing to soften it...

anad yea just regular old softener salt

 

[Jim Martin]

one water softener installed and running...pretty easy to do.....

 

[SamIam]

So if I have a Prochem how long do they last ? Do they ever need to be replaced?

And if I were to go RO what the best?

 

[SamIam]

I know the Prochem says recharge every 1000 gallons.

 

[Nate The Great]

@LanceInAz @Larry Cobb

 

[SamIam]

Does Cobb sell his separtely

 

[SamIam]

http://www.prochem.com/Upload/KCPro...bac-7eaed573005d_86037360-G_WaterSoftener.pdf


Apparently they can have more resin put in them.

http://602abcwater.com/1-2-cu-ft-fine-mesh-high-capacity-resin/

Wondering if this would work anybody ever need to do this?

 

[Larry Cobb]

I have all the RO parts, as does Lance.

RO water is a much better system, but requires more to install.

Our RO TM customers say they rinse more completely with less wand strokes.

Also good to counter Electrolysed water advertising.
Photo of our RO system:


New "electrolysed green water cleaning system" is what we are working on currently.

 

[SamIam]