Iron Pro 2 Fleck 5600SXT Whole House Water Softener | 32,000 Grain, 9"x48" Tank, 1.0 Cubic Ft Softening Resin
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- Water softener, iron filter, all in one! high flow for whole house use!
- 32,000 grain capacity, fine mesh resin designed for high iron removal & long life
- Fleck 5600SXT digital metered valve for efficiency and ease of use, 5 year warranty!
- Removes hardness up to 75 gpg, Iron up to 6-8 ppm range, Manganese up to 6 ppm, sediment, sand, rust
- Sized for smaller homes 1-2 people 1-2 baths, comes with brine tank, DIY instructions, bypass valve
Fine mesh resin
Specialty resin improves system capacity for iron removal.
Fleck 5600SXT control head
Our most popular head offers digital controls with an informative display and easy setup.
Complete System
Includes tank, control head, fine mesh resin, and brine tank.
Complete system
Complete system shipped to your door includes all components needed for operation - the resin tank, fine mesh resin, control head, and brine tank with safety float.
On demand metered regeneration
System uses a flow meter to measure your water use and regenerate as needed. This reduces the salt used and lowers waste water. We use the stronger paddlewheel style meter that holds up better with fewer leaks than the turbine style.
LCD Digital display and touchpad controls
LCD displays current system status and error codes for at a glance information and troubleshooting. Easy to use touchpad controls allow quick control over all features and settings.
Complete brine tank
Includes brine tank with float assembly and brine well.
WHOLE HOUSE WATER SOFTENERS WITH ELECTRONIC VALVE METER
The typical water softener is a mechanical appliance that's plumbed into your home's water supply system. All water softeners use the same operating principle: They trade the minerals for something else, in most cases sodium. The process is called ion exchange.
The heart of a water softener is a mineral tank. It's filled with small polystyrene beads, also known as resin or zeolite. The beads carry a negative charge. Calcium and magnesium in water both carry positive charges. This means that these minerals will cling to the beads as the hard water passes through the mineral tank. Sodium ions also have positive charges, albeit not as strong as the charge on the calcium and magnesium. In the traditional water softeners, when a very strong brine solution is flushed through a tank that has beads already saturated with calcium and magnesium, the sheer volume of the sodium ions is enough to drive the calcium and magnesium ions off the beads. Water softeners have a separate brine tank that uses common salt to create this brine solution.
In normal operation, hard water moves into the mineral tank and the calcium and magnesium ions move to the beads, replacing sodium ions. The sodium ions go into the water. Once the beads are saturated with calcium and magnesium, the unit enters a 3-phase regenerating cycle. First, the backwash phase reverses water flow to flush dirt out of the tank. In the recharge phase, the concentrated sodium-rich salt solution is carried from the brine tank through the mineral tank. The sodium collects on the beads, replacing the calcium and magnesium, which go down the drain. Once this phase is over, the mineral tank is flushed of excess brine and the brine tank is refilled
Sizing Your Softener:
Water hardness can be reported in "grains per gallon" (gpg), "parts per million" (ppm) or "milligrams per liter" (mg/l). Most of the industry calculates softener size using gpg. You can divide ppm and mg/l by 17.1 to obtain your hardness value in grains per gallon.
You will also need to account for the iron and manganese in your water, and a quick way to get this value is to multiply your iron and manganese concentration (in ppm or mg/l) by a factor of 4. Add this number to the hardness value you determined above. The resulting total value is similar to a "compensated" hardness value, and will better serve to size your softener.
In the example below we will use 4 people in the home and a hardness value of 10 grains per gallon, and iron concentration of 2 ppm.
Multiply 4 people in the home x 75 gallons water usage per person per day x (10 grains hardness + (2 ppm iron x 4)) = 5,400 grains of hardness to be removed per day. So with a 32,000 grain system, set capacity would be about 26,000 grains (20% lower than actual - reserve capacity), and a metered unit would regenerate approximately every 5 days (26,000 divided by 5,400), which is acceptable.
Use the formula above to adjust for the number of people actually living in your home, and your specific water hardness.
With normal to low levels of iron in your water, you can size your softener to regenerate between every 5 to 10 days. With higher levels of iron (5 mg/l and higher) and manganese (1 mg/l and higher), it's better to size a system to regenerate more frequently, in order to keep the resin bed free of accumulated deposits. In this case, a regeneration every three to five days may be required. If you have very high iron levels in your water, please contact us by email or telephone for a sizing recommendation.
Model Number | WHS948SXT |
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UPC | 0 |
Brand | Premier Water Systems |
Item Number | 20 |
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